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.
As Director of the Montreal TSO, Miss Francine M---- often made comments about employees regarding their associations with others who she considered shady individuals. We wonder: since when does the CRA control what their employees do on their own time? However since some people like to make comments about others here are a few we’d like to share:
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.
Speaking of your former lover Mr. Gabriel C-----, here is another individual with a shady past and who has moved and been promoted all the way to Assistant Commissioner. Mr. C-----, for those of you who do not know has been sleeping around with many women at the office, such as Nicole P----- and Monique L------. As a matter of fact these escapades cost him his
first marriage. He is now living with a rich girlfriend whose family owns Les Emballages Maska. We wonder if he has disclosed this fact re. the new Conflict of Interest guidelines.
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---------.
Then of course there’s Lucie A-------- who has had (and is still having) her share of shady acquaintances and sexual adventures with every Tom, Dick and Harry. While Claude is away on his ski vacations, she’s contacting people on her “secret” cell phone during business hours. Does she really think people at the office don’t see that?
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.
Then of course we have Mr. Ray Lazzara, our union boss who has stolen funds and also stolen time by not recording vacation time on his time sheets while he was vacationing. Imagine the nerve of this character commenting on others. Mr. Lazzara seems to be pretty busy when he visits Montreal since he spends quite a bit of time with his new fling, Miss H---- R-----. I guess most of you were not aware of this!
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.
