18 Replies to “This Is Awkward”

  1. so a publicly hired and paid employee lets the public know what their dollar is buying, and she gets pillared, what am I missing. Do these public servants not get it????

  2. Suppose that information she leaked was to a bidder on a city contract, and the information leaked was the amount of another bidder’s bid?
    The honourable thing for her to now do would be to resign, and throw her support to an un-tainted (heh) NDP candidate to replace her in a by-election. But I really don’t expect that.

  3. NME666, do you know what was transmitted? Was it for personal gain, or to assist a friend in an investment? Was it a tip to an environmental group? Was it to the media? Was it to be used for blackmail? The bottom line is there are a host of reasons, and that is why the rule is no one is to distribute unauthorized information.

  4. “…a publicly hired and paid employee…”
    No, she’s not a hired employee. She’s an elected representative of a constituency of voters. She volunteered and asked those voters for that position. And having got that position she was given access to certain information on the condition that it be kept confidential. And then she didn’t keep it confidential. She made the choices, she gets the consequences. That’s how it is for grown-ups.

  5. Wow, NME666!!!
    Talk about firing your guns before you have a target. That, my friend, is what you are missing. I guess you believe it to be OK if any public servant says anything they want to whomever they want about any subject ……. financial or otherwise.
    Sheeesh!

  8. If it was leaked then it is no longer “confidential”.
    So, let us know what the information was and we can judge whether this information, made by the bureaucracy, should or should not be confidential.
    Generally speaking, there is far too much information labelled secret, confidential and kept from the public.
    In a small city, as Saskatoon is, many things eventually come to light but sometimes too late for the public to intervene in their own interest.
    The city has difficulty managing “the booming” economy. Mistakes will be expensive for the next generation to pay for and they are adding up.
    Saskatoon needs more wards and more city councilors, not higher wages and full time politicians, who’ll simply tow the city line.

  10. toner, yes the public hired her, by voting her in
    ogrdinkneehill…it was a confidential report received
    that’s 2 down
    rolf the hog…actually the problem is in many case the “confidential” aspect of decision making meetings, it allows gov’t employees to hide the truth from their constituents. There is very little that needs to be held in confidence. And yes, that is just an opinion…but if these things are held in the open, then NO tip is transmitted, and all concerned have the same information, which generally leaves no one with an advantage. I’v sat in one to many meetings that were confidential for absolutely no reason except that ppl could cover their ass if things effed up
    BCer, see Larry’s post, he says it better than I can
    Quite a few in here should become lieberals, they’d fit in well in the culture of lying and BSing

  11. Breach of trust…she should do the honourable thing and resign.
    That will happen when pigs speak.Politicians haven’t a clue what Honor or the public trust is. They know only one thing. How to make themselves feel self righteous, while feeding at the public trough.Its always about them. Except for a few oddballs who actually understand they where voted in to represent people with dignity, not a lottery for self indulgence.

  13. “The honourable thing for her to now do would be to resign”
    Not likely to happen. What would she do without politics? Lorje is a career politician with a long history of trouble-making and throwing up roadblocks whenever she detects a hint of capitalism. Her latest crusade is a concern involving money-making enterprises in public parks … hot dog stands, bike rentals, etc. Perfectly harmless endeavours yet they go completely against her socialist grain.
    She could no doubt pick up some cushy government position in Regina if only the NDP were still in power. I don’t think Premier Wall has much use for a life-long left-wing agitator.

  14. wow enemy666 you got owned buddy…lol you will be picking leather out of your teeth for awhile on this one foot in mouth disease…..go atheism!!! lol ha ha. just stiring the pot!!

  15. Firstly–I must say–that whoever wrote that page must have been a government employee at one time or another. He could have said all that in half the text.
    Secondly–Why would he bother writing a news report on a issue where a council member is accused of wrongdoing–but not a word is mentioned as to what she (Lorje) has allegedly done wrong?
    Sorry–thumbs down on that one!!

  16. You can be sure that whatever she leaked wouldn’t put a union in jeopardy or in any embarrassing position. Pat sees herself as a crusader for the ‘public’ as long as the ‘public’ is her kind of people; pro-union and anti-business.

  17. paul, I don’t think you know what “owned” would mean. The straw man arguments do more to address the lack of knowledge some in here have as to protocols of “business as usual” in these quasi dictatorships that pass as democracy. The example regarding contract bids is a damn good example of an individual invoking this that does not understand the procedure. So it is only a valid point to ppl like you. Paul, I know several contractors who regularly submit quots, and very often they know the completions before they do so, and under cutting the competition does NOT guarantee they get the “job”.
    now go back to your corner and quit beating your dog!!!

  18. Pat, like most, but even more than most, lefty pols truly and sincerely believes she is entitled to her entitlements and that rules are for the people who are not smart enough to make it into the socialist ruling class. For example, didn’t she drive a city bus with neither the authority nor licence to do so? So when she made her swift mea culpa I am betting it was because she did not want to protest to the degree that some would call for a retrospective investigation of some of the instances where she had had “helped out” her friends over the course of her time in office.

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