It's Payback Time, And I'm Loving It!

The opposition turfed one of Canada's best CEO's, now come the consequences.

Morgan was president and CEO of Canada's largest energy company, EnCana Corp., from 2002 until he stepped down Jan. 1, and he was named Canada's most respected CEO in a survey conducted by Ipsos Reid last year. Harper calls Morgan "an outstanding Canadian" who has championed transparency and ethics in the private and public sectors throughout his career. In the job, created under the Conservative government's new Accountability Act, Morgan will develop guidelines, review and approve selection processes proposed by ministers to fill vacancies within their portfolios, and report publicly on government compliance with the guidelines. He'll be paid $1 a year.

After that disaster, PM Harper called off appointing anyone to the Public Appointments Commission. I don't blame him, who would be willing to work for $1 a year, except someone who really wanted to help Canada. If the opposition would not accept one of the most respected CEO's in Canada, who could you appoint?

Okay, that's old news, but it ties into this new story. It's pay back time, and I'm loving it.

Liberal and NDP MPs said Paille is in a conflict of interest because he will get access to confidential opinion research commissioned during the 1995 referendum when he was campaigning to break up Canada.
"So they appointed a friend of (former PQ leader) Jacques Parizeau -- somebody who hates federalists, who hates Liberals," said Quebec Liberal MP Denis Coderre.
Added NDP MP Paul Dewar: "The person being appointed here has questionable credentials. We have the back-room, back-door process still alive and well. That's exactly the problem with the previous government."

So, the opposition rejects one of Canada's most respected CEO's, and therefore the Public Appointments Commission has not been set up. This gives the Conservatives free rein to appoint anyone they want to investigate government wrong doings, but the opposition are whining that it is not fair. If they would have accepted Morgan, there would have been a fair commission, but too bad that politics got in the oppositions way.

The ultimate irony is that the opposition are now calling this a witch hunt, when they did exactly that to Gwyn Morgan, they went on a witch hunt. Suck it up you whiners, you got what you deserve for your disgusting performance against Morgan.