Licia Corbella, one of my favorite members of the much hated conservative Canadians simply saying the right things club (click here for membership), said these right things today in her Calgary Sun column (Sun Media Corporation, not overtly liberal).
She’s obviously nominated for this week’s coveted ProudToBeCanadian.ca Quote Of The Week Award for typing the last sentence seen below:
[…] And now, after Dingwall quit his job last week, the Liberals who gave him his posh post want to give him a platinum parachute as well.
I have a copy of Dingwall’s Remuneration and Benefits package—obtained through Access to Information by Conservative MP Brian Pallister—and nowhere does this document mention anything about severance.
On Sunday, Revenue Minister John McCallum said Dingwall may have shown “poor judgment,” but he deserves a golden handshake because he didn’t break any of the spending rules.
“I certainly share the judgment of most Canadians that he displayed poor judgment in charging the chewing gum, but I think the fundamental point is that there’s no evidence he did not follow the rules, and the common practice that’s enshrined in the common law is that he’s therefore eligible for a severance package,” McCallum told reporters.
“Enshrined?” Enshrined where? McCallum is either making this up as he goes or this is just more willful Liberal deceit.
Changing his tune somewhat from Sunday, McCallum said yesterday the government will pay Dingwall as little as it can legally get away with.
“This is a matter of law, it is not a matter of political discretion,” McCallum said yesterday in the House.
But later, when scrummed by reporters outside of the House, McCallum was unable to point to any law that makes severance mandatory after someone willingly quits their job.
“I can’t say precisely what law … whether it is the common law or the written law, this is the matter on which the government will take advice,” he added.
He can’t point to the law because it doesn’t exist. If it did, Canadians would simply make their living by quitting their jobs endlessly. McCallum’s statement is, like so much of what this government does and says, spin to hide its own fetid corruption. […]
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