With all the talk and recent headlines about Bill Cosby, Jian Ghomeshi, his law suit against the CBC, and Liberal MPs Scott Andrews and Massimo Pacetti being suspended from caucus amid sexual harassment allegations, it’s a wonder why the Canada Revenue Agency has no office dating policy, and hasn’t quickly drawn one up.
Poor Justin Trudeau. No good deed goes unpunished. This “serious personal misconduct” story has put him in a position where he was dammed if he did something and damned if he didn’t. If he had said nothing publicly, the ever-sanctimonious Thomas Mulcair would likely have criticized him for doing nothing in the face of harassment charges. Because Trudeau did take action, and at the same time demanded that a proper investigative process be set up immediately, he gets criticized for going too far.
Many Canadians felt that Trudeau’s desire to appear like a strong, decisive leader willing to take immediate action, he has pretty much broken every democratic principle we hold in Canada: The presumption of innocence, the right to know what you are accused of and by whom before you are summarily dismissed from your position without pay, the threat of never being allowed to run again, not to mention the instant ruination of their reputations and private lives. (reminds us of at least 1 of the auditors who was unfairly accused of corruption charges and now stands trial… but we digress).
Mr. Trudeau understands what the CRA doesn’t… that even an office fling can pose a risk to an employer, office romances are generally bad for business, as it could open the door to a sexual harassment or discrimination lawsuit. What will it take for the CRA to act? Especially since office romances could lead (and have led) to criminal collusion (bribes) between employees of the CRA.
While head of the Montreal TSO it was generally agreed that Raymond G----- promoted the “ladies” he was sleeping with.
Well Miss M---- maybe the employees should be told about your sexual encounters. Let’s start with Mr. Francois L------; then there were many others while you were in Rigaud, such as Mr. Gabriel C----- and an Italian individual who worked at the CRA and is today facing criminal charges. We wonder what your friends and upper management of the CRA would have to say about that. You see Miss M---- when you live in a glass house you shouldn’t be throwing rocks at others.
Mr. C-----, during his days as an auditor tried to influence other auditors to go easy on some of his friends who were being audited. Imagine! The champion of integrity doing this!
Mr. C-----’s good friend, Mr. Ch------ also did his share of sleeping around with such individuals as Monique L------ (our old commissioner) and L----- M---------.
Let us not forget Guylaine G------- who has also had her share of sexual adventures with managers and staff. How come no one ever mentions these exploits? Why is it that these despicable individuals keep getting promotions?
Miss Claudia Gal is now shacked up with her new boyfriend, Mr. Veillette. Many of their lunches and suppers are paid for by the union. We wonder who paid for Claudia’s trip to Florida with Mr. Veillette. We wonder who paid for your champagne on the beach.
Miss Gal recently took the old director, Mr. Patrice Chouinard to the PSLRB regarding a discrimination issue because she did not get her MG-05. She has always been preoccupied with her career advancement: having a few dances at the Christmas party with Mr. Chouinard did not work for Miss Gal.
Finally, as we reported previously: Discrimination is a common theme at the Montreal CRA office. For example, if your name is Patrick Belanger and get caught having sex with a fellow female colleague, Carolyn Blais, at the CRA offices open to the public, you won’t get fired, you get promoted. If you’re not a Francophone and receive unsolicited pornographic email you could and probably will get fired.
Same goes for if you’re a personal friend of Patrice Chouinard: you can give away the answers to a PM.01 exam in return for sexual favours, and the only thing that will happen to you is you get taken out of the jury for that competition (see note 2 re. RCMP document below); whereas if you’re Italian an you’re caught with notes to an exam, you could and probably will get fired.
What a team!
Hey!! Let’s change subject all this sex talk is depressing, all we do at work is work, maybe we should be sleeping around to get promoted also.
So (to change subject) have a look at the picture below: .
Who’s that buying beer for CRA auditors and investigators? Is that Peter Kostek? He’s the one wearing a suit. From what we are told this person regularly bought drinks for CRA personnel. Anyone see a Conflict of Interest here? Should R&D consultants be allowed to do that? Should he even be at the same table?
But that’s nothing if you look at old issues of the CRA internally generated magazine “Contact”, you’ll find many pictures of CRA officials accepting gifts and awards from outside sources. In Ottawa some personnel have even been enticed with trips paid for by corporations doing business with the government, and tax organizations; yet nothing was ever said about those incidents.
I wonder why? Maybe it’s because the “proper” people benefitted.
