Musings —07.23.2013 02:50 PM
—An honourable thing to do
Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s Ottawa.
Musings —07.23.2013 02:50 PM
—Guys like Morgan rarely get kudos for doing the right thing, so I say: kudos for doing the right thing. Nice to see that it still occasionally happens in Harper’s Ottawa.
Indeed an honourable and likely very expensive action that Mr. Morgan took. It is no small thing to willingly give up a full and probably very substantial salary on such short notice. Who says there isn’t sacrifice in the public service.
Hey, Robert K., the guy who quit was a lobbyist, not a public servant. And a Tory, at that. The person who stayed is the CoS.
And it wasn’t a factor before because he lobbied DND, not Justice.
I don’t get it; the timing is curious.
She’s been Nicholson’s CoS for a long time, and she even had a screen when they were in Justice so it’s not like it’s new that his job is putting her in conflict. Why is he resigning now? The shuffle was almost a week ago. Did this just hit the media or something today? How was this not a factor in the shuffle calculus?
Her new job does add a new conflict — he has defence clients, she’s now CoS to the Minister of Defence.
Apparently the Ethics Commissioner was willing to help them set up a structure that would let them keep their jobs (an “ethical wall”); they decided it was too complicated, so he quit.