Lies, Lies and Entitlements
February 4, 2006 · By kaqchikel
It is apparent that Paul Martin openly lied to Parliament and to Canadians when he said that David Dingwall had quit his job at the Royal Canadian Mint of his own volition.
In one of its last actions before transferring power, the Liberal government has agreed to pay David Dingwall $417,780 in compensation for his dismissal as head of the Royal Canadian Mint.
Privy Council Office announced the payment Saturday following the decision of an independent arbitrator, George Adams, who concluded that Mr. Dingwall had not resigned, as the government suggested at the time, but had been fired.
Mr. Dingwall
left[was fired from] the $277,000-a-year-job in September after a prolonged controversy about his six-figure office expense account.
Is anyone surprised?
David Akins at CTV tells us that George Adams’ report, finding that David Dingwall was fired and therefore “entitled to his entitlements,” was issued on January 20, three days before the federal election. Ottawa bureaucrats issued a release today claiming that Paul Martin did not know of the report until today. Until today, but Dingwall was cut a cheque for the $417,780 on Friday. Who can believe that?
A senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office said neither Prime Minister Paul Martin nor any other campaigning politician knew about the Dingwall settlement until Saturday, when officials in the Privy Council Office issued a news release.
Government bureaucrats refused a CTV News request to view the report produced by Adams.
No one in the Prime Minister’s Office or the Privy Council Office would appear on camera.
I am sure Paul Martin was really sincere when at his last press conference he said that he regretted nothing.
We need to start getting used to this sort of thing. No matter how much shredding has been going on in Ottawa for the last couple of weeks, the new government is bound to discover more and greater lies and Liberal mischief.
Crossposted from Civitatensis.ca
Just out of curiosity of course… where was all this anger when the Conservatives raped the system with their last government?
By the way, when will you be posting a story about how within 10 minutes as Prime Minister, Harper announced that he had a turn-coat join his cabinet. Doing the very politics that he lambasted against. Can’t wait to see his accountabilty act - it will read something along the lines of “does not apply to us”.
Jason:
Their last government? I think I was in diapers at the time. Sorry! But that rape talk makes me wonder if you are not confusing things with the Clinton Admin. Wasn’t that in another country?
About the turn coat: That would be here and here
well, I am old enough to remember the last Conservative government, and the Trudeau government that preceded it. It certainly didn’t “rape the country”. It was by far the least corrupt and most effective government of the last forty years. But I take it that it just wasn’t corrupt enough for some people.