The Vancouver Sun
reports:
In what critics call an unprecedented step, the department has listed
a “Northern Gateway Liaison” at a top level of its organizational
chart, under a reorganization prompted by the 2012 budget’s sweeping
Fisheries Act amendments.
The position will report directly to the executive director of the
National Ecosystems Management Branch at the department’s headquarters.
“This suggests an unprecedented level of access and engagement for a
specific project,” said Green party leader Elizabeth May, who in the
1980s was a senior adviser to a federal environment minister. “This is
the reality of a government that has told the bureaucracy, ‘be prepared
to make sure this project goes through.’”
B.C. NDP MP Fin Donnelly, his party’s deputy fisheries critic, said
he’s never heard of a company getting such special treatment. “This
clearly exposes the Harper Conservative oil pipeline agenda. They are
putting the oil industry ahead of fishing, tourism and all other
industries.”
But the press secretary for acting Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said
the organizational chart included in the email, sent in late October to
employees, and signed by deputy minister Claire Dansereau,
“mischaracterized” the position.
Right. "Mischaracterized." Isn't that what this government says
every friggin' time they get busted on something?
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