is getting over $400,000 plus pension benefits, as the arbitrator has determined his resignation was involuntary.
Via Peter Warren who notes that the same government officials who “don’t work weekends” managed to issue a press release at 1 pm on a Saturday afternoon.
Such is the cost of silence. Dingwall was the Public Works minister who directed Chuck Guite be put in charge of advertising spending, and that rules separating the awarding of contracts and subsequent payment be set aside – creating an environment in which the fraudulent invoices submitted by Adscam players could escape normal checks and balances.
I have the perfect candidate for the Liberal party – David Dingwall – he fufills all their criteria – lies; steals; arrogant;………….
So the info about the award was available JAN 20….3 days before the election. Cute and oh so typical of liberals.
When did the media first know I wonder?
I can’t believe this is happening in Canada, in 2006. Someone please wake me up from this terrible dream.
I’m sure I woke up in a parallel universe.
You know what it is doing, this greed and corruption is rotting away the very foundation of Canada and what it means to uphold justice. How much farther along can we go as a nation before we implode?
Even for the RCMP, I can’t help but look at and not think it must be chewing their insides up to know this is going on right under their noses, on their watch, but they are puppets.
Castrated and neutered puppets, I have no other words for this type of silence from them.
That or the pain of watching what you most cherished as an RCMP, the reason why you joined up – “to maintain the right” – have scarred over so bad in your heart you can’t feel a thing.
Pension’s only a few years away, maybe most are just shutting up so they can make it.
Immigration Canada wants to punt a hard working family because the father “shoplifted” 25 years ago to feed his family, yet millions, not billions, are stolen every day from the public purse in Ottawa and your hands are tied.
While I have the utmost respect for the men in scarlet, it must be bloody hell to be a RC now-a-days.
Sad.
Thievery =
2002 December Report
Office of the Auditor General of Canada
…Executive compensation in Crown corporations
Compensation needs to be more transparent….
In brief
Our review indicated inconsistencies in how the federal Crown corporations manage the overall compensation for their executives…
….11.5 Crown corporations have more freedom than federal departments and agencies with regard to compensation packages they give to their executives. As part of our annual financial audits, our Office examined how Crown corporations handled executive compensation. We examined 43 Crown corporations over a three-year period by reviewing some each year. In the government’s view, Crown corporations are established at arm’s length from the government. They have their own corporate governance structure. They are expected to be competent to run their own affairs….
….For the corporations we examined, the Committee recommended a salary range of $113,200 to $325,200 for chief executive officers and a performance pay range of 10 percent to 20 percent of the salary, effective April 2001. However, the Committee excluded compensation of vice-presidents from its review because employee compensation is outside its mandate….
….Crown corporations need to follow a more consistent and transparent approach to executive compensation. We found the Crown Corporation General Regulations to be too general to apply in these circumstances….
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/reports.nsf/html/20021211ce.html#ch11hd3b
2003 August
Waste Report
BUREAUCRAT BONUS BOONDOGGLE
Williams Exposes �Performance Pay� Abuse – Millions Wasted
…Last year, the Liberals paid out $36,279,309 paid to senior public Service executives for �performance pay�. In addition, Deputy Ministers received $2,958,930 in bonuses. That�s a grand total of almost $40 million paid out in bonuses! Even worse, Williams revealed that 96% of all senior public servants received the bonuses, and 95% of Deputy Ministers received them….As Williams says, �When 96% of all executives are getting the raises, you have to wonder how bad of a job one has to do not to get the raise!�….
http://www.johnwilliams.ca/wastereport.htm
2005 Report of the Auditor General � Status Report
Chapter 7 – Governance of Crown Corporations
….Disclosure of executive compensation
7.62 In December 2002, we reported the need for improved transparency of senior executives’ salaries and other compensation. In the two years since our audit observation, very little has happened…..
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/reports.nsf/a1b15d892a1f761a852565c40068a492/90adf39c1aa58c8185256fa1005284d9?OpenDocument
Well, the scary Conservatives tried to head it off, but Big Paulie takes care of his crew…
From Hansard…
Mr. Brian Pallister (Portage�Lisgar, CPC): “Mr. Speaker, we have learned that the Prime Minister’s Office spoke with David Dingwall before he submitted his letter of resignation. We also know that the Prime Minister knew that Dingwall’s remuneration agreement did not include severance. Therefore, severance pay would be entirely at the discretion of the Prime Minister.”
Bloggers. Your job is to find out what Mr. Entitlement’s mailing address, email address, home address and phone number are. At the very least, Canadians should be able to let their displeasure with Mr. Entitlement known….
Ask your Liberal friends if they would have voted the same WAY… if they knew that this ruling was decided three days before the election and kept secret until yesterday.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060204/dingwall_compensation_060204/20060204?hub=TopStories
Dingwall gets $418,000 in settlement with feds
Updated Sat. Feb. 4 2006 11:24 PM ET
CTV.ca News
The federal government has paid David Dingwall, the former president of the Royal Canadian Mint, a compensation package for his forced resignation. The government said it is following a binding arbitration ruling by paying Dingwall, also a one-time Liberal cabinet minister, $417,780 along with associated pension benefits.
“Mr. Dingwall is satisfied with that result and pleased that the government is complying with its legal obligations,” said lawyer Janice Payne in a news release issued late Saturday evening.
“He is also grateful that his situation has been independently reviewed and that he can now put behind him the difficulties of the last several months.”
NDP MP Pat Martin told CTV News from the Manitoba NDP’s convention in Winnipeg: “Dingwall’s laughing at us as we speak. If the Canadian public needed any confirmation they did the right thing in throwing the Liberals out on Jan. 23, this is the confirmation right here.”
The amount of Dingwall’s severance went to binding arbitration because he and the government couldn’t agree on what was legally owed to him. The arbitrator, George Adams, ruled Dingwall’s resignation last fall was involuntary and therefore the government has a legal obligation to pay him. The Liberal government had maintained that Dingwall had resigned.
On top of that, CTV News has learned the deal was actually approved on Jan. 20, three days before Canadians voted in the federal election. The government issued a cheque to Dingwall on Friday. “This just compounds the whole sordid Dingwall mess, that the Liberal government knew on January 20 the arbitrator’s final result and they wouldn’t tell the Canadian public until after the election was safely over,” Martin said.
A senior official in the Prime Minister’s Office said neither Prime Minister Paul Martin nor any other campaigning politician knew about the Dingwall settlement until Saturday, when officials in the Privy Council Office issued a news release. Government bureaucrats refused a CTV News request to view the report produced by Adams. No one in the Prime Minister’s Office or the Privy Council Office would appear on camera.
However, in a memorable appearance before a House of Commons committee last fall, Dingwall, a Liberal cabinet minister in the first Jean Chretien government, said this: “I am entitled to my entitlements. If that means severance, so be it.”
During the recent federal election campaign, Conservative television ads made used of Dingwall’s ‘entitlements’ statement.
Harper reacts
Prime minister-designate Stephen Harper reacted immediately on Saturday to the news that Dingwall was actually fired.
“After months of evasive answers in the House of Commons, we have now learned that David Dingwall’s departure from the Royal Canadian Mint was involuntary,” Harper said in a news release.
“This is contrary to the information given by the Liberal government. I am very disappointed that Parliament was misled on this matter.”
Conservative MP Jason Kenney went further, telling CTV: “They lied to Canadians about the fact that he was fired and didn’t resign. It’s very strange. They just didn’t tell the truth.”
Dingwall resigned as president after critics accused him of racking up exorbitant expenses. His office’s six-figure expenses included everything from extravagant foreign travel to a $1.29 pack of gum in 2004 and 2005. “I believed the minister agreed with that,” Dingwall said during his committee appearance about his decision to resign. “I believe the Prime Minister agreed with that. Why? Because we didn’t want to throw the Mint into a crisis.”
Documents, obtained under the Access to Information Act by Conservative MP Brian Pallister, said Dingwall’s expenses cost more than $747,000 in 2004. In 2004, Dingwall and his colleagues spent $130,000 in foreign and domestic travel, $14,000 in meals and $11,000 in hospitality. Dingwall always defended his spending and said he did nothing wrong.
“Although all of my expenses were thoroughly scrutinized during my tenure, should the independent audit discover any error, I will repay the corporation fully,” Dingwall said at the committee hearing.
When asked why he would expense a pack of gum — particularly in light of his $277,000 annual salary as CEO of the Mint — Dingwall saw no reason to apologize in an interview with CTV News last fall.
“Look, I just throw the receipts on the desk, they take them and they submit them accordingly,” he said.
An independent audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers later found that Dingwall’s expenses were within the mint’s guidelines.
At the time of his resignation, Dingwall was also under fire for failing to register as a lobbyist for a Toronto pharmaceutical company, a role he played before joining the Mint.
The company reportedly agreed to pay Dingwall up to $350,000 for his help in securing grants under the Technology Partnerships Canada program. But program rules forbid companies from hiring lobbyists.
With a report from CTV’s David Akin
Meanwhile, Liberal MP Bill Graham, who has been named leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, defended the actions of his party.
“There was an arbitrator’s decision that Mr. Dingwall was entitled to the money and that the responsible decision by the bureaucrats was that it should be paid,” said Graham, who said he wasn’t aware of the severance package until he read the newspaper Sunday morning.
Graham contended the only other alternative would have been for Dingwall to sue the government to receive the funds.
“So I think it was a responsible decision to pay it, and I think, frankly, (prime minister-designate Stephen) Harper should be glad that this page can be turned now rather than himself being involved in a lawsuit over the years.”
Or in other words … “Dingdong said pay me or I’ll sue. So by giving into him we saved the government money.” Unbelievable.
Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person obtains money, behaviour, or other goods and/or services from another by wrongfully threatening or inflicting harm to this person, reputation, or property.
“This was a cover-up that affected the result of the election and I think in away subverted democracy.”
from article titled:
Tories accuse Liberals of Dingwall ‘cover-up’
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060205/dingwall_tories_060205/20060205?hub=TopStories
In ‘a way subverted’?… how about ‘in EVERY way subverted democracy’.
Fedup; Go right to the top and read what capebretanblue wrote. The truth is simple. capebretanblue’s comment rings true to my ears.
I am wondering how many of the 800 Cancun nights we can attribute to D f*****g Dingwall, which didn’t show up on his modest expense sheet.
Good point, I wonder when CTV will blow open the Relocation Scandal?
Obviously the fix was in from the start.
There never was any doubt that Dingie would get all or most of the half million he wanted. To make it “legal” of course, all that was needed was an “independant” arbitrator’s review and decision, declaring that indeed, despite what both Dingie himself and the Lieberal Govt said – ie that he had resigned on his own without pressure – Dingie was forced to leave his job as head of the Mint. Therefore he deserves the severance package.
To paraphrase a very popular comic from a few years ago :
How CONVEEEEEENIENT!
CTV (Tass) mentioned this result was known 3 days prior to the election but was held by the Liberal government till now.CBCpravda has an almost sympathetic story saying how the opposition used the “entitled to my entitlements” against the libs.
Just another scandal skidded conveniently out of the way.
This is just one incident in the long list of what Canadians have been complacently putting up with for years, since they don’t seem to mind being publically screwed at every turn. Just throw us a pittance or even the announcement of a pittance and we forgive all. Preferably throw it in the direction of Toronto or Montreal.
Steal from me once, shame on you, steal from me again, shame on me. Obviously, most Cdns have no shame or we would have a CPC majority.
$400,000???
I wanna be fired, I wanna be fired!
Paris Stonach was just on Pravda defending the decision by deflecting it.
Liberals are unrepentant even on the other side of the house. I wish a few more would be sent to the big house.
Anyone with a Liberal MP in their riding should phone their MP to complain about this. Unfortunately (or not) I don’t have a Liberal MP to complain to. Oh well, maybe I’ll phone Ralph Goodale’s office as it is as close as I get.
Let’s make sure our CP MP’s don’t ever do this.
Being as this is taxpayers money one would think that the taxpayer would have a right to know in a timely fashion. The bureaucrats at the Privy Office who so conveniently decided to withhold this information until after the election should all be looking at severance packages themselves right now, as in fired
… First handpick an arbitrator who will give the right answer, then hide it until after the election and its all ok
So just set the the fine for Digwall lying to a Commons Committee at $500K problem solved
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