Wish we had this type of screening with MPs......there are 30 odd Liberal MPs with a criminal or arrest record.

With "screening" like that, who needs criminal records checks at all?

And if these "repeat offenders" do end up stealing public funds, so what? They haven't even bothered charging Evelyn Hynes.

A pardon application from the federales only costs fifty bucks- renouncing your citizenship is a hundred bucks.

Kate said:"With "screening" like that, who needs criminal records checks at all?

And if these "repeat offenders" do end up stealing public funds, so what? They haven't even bothered charging Evelyn Hynes.
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well that was my little tongue formly planted in cheek point....we have 30 some criminal records the liberal are admitting to.....the rest of these crooks haven't been to trial yet. ;-)

Notice how no government flunkies ever go to jail for stealing public money? (That's to make it nice for the ones who haven't been caught yet.)

That's what we need more of. A simplistic post to a complex issue.

When Sask Gov't employees actually start doing hard time for stealing our money (along with the NDP ministers and beaurocrats who defrauded us in Spudco), I'll start worrying about "complex issues".

In the meantime, if this government can't get a criminal check on the desk from every employee by the end of October, they need to be firing some of their beaurocrats.

Fuck that. I take that back. The upper level beaurocrats should be fired today, for not having implemented it as policy long ago, along with the idiots who negotiate away to their favoured voting block (the unions) the right of taxpayers to know that the people we pay (too much) good money to don't have a record of stealing it.

Yeah, fuck that. Guess you're good with having your taxes go up due to the litigation costs of dismissing people who let's say were convicted of pot possession 20 years ago and have been clean ever since - are fired.

Instead of getting credit for doing something about this (people applying for designated jobs will be required to provide criminal record checks at their cost) - WHICH I SUPPORT WHOLEHEARTEDLY - and making sure that good folks (who may have made a mistake in their past) have the opportunity to move to a different job where their past isn't an issue - you want to burn them and the bureaucrats implementing this. Nice.

Suddenly the NDP is concerned with litigation?

Tell that to the people they countersued over Spudco, in an attempt to bury them.

And where in my post, or the comment did I say anything about firing people? Find other postitions for them. Come up with a policy for dealing with it. Assign the handling of money to other employees.

But creating a policy that simply permits a fraud artist time to get former criminal convictions swept away with a pardon isn't solving the problem, and it ISN'T PROTECTING the tax payer.

Or pay the litigation, get rid of them and leave the position vacant. There are about twice as many civil servants in this province as we need, anyway.

Save money over the long run.

People who were convicted of pot possession 20 years ago and have been clean ever since have had a pardon for 17 years, Marg. Meanwhile, people convicted of any offence last month get to work there for another 4 years and 11 months, and then get a pardon. Perhaps a remedial arithmetic course would help?

As for diverting taxes to prosecute government scofflaws, sure, why not, it's not like the government is doing anything useful with the taxes anyway.

Contractor with government experience for hire. Criminal Record Check: Completed.

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