"Gov. Gen. Julie Payette's disregard for the Mounties paid to protect her has resulted in added security risks and unnecessary taxpayer costs, according to RCMP and Rideau Hall sources. Payette's secrecy and resistance to working with the RCMP routinely sends her protective detail scrambling to fulfil last-minute requests and drives up spending on overtime, hotel and plane tickets, multiple sources told CBC News. Payette has even made repeated attempts to slip away from her protectors in Canada and abroad, sources say. The RCMP has also had to apologize for her behaviour to foreign security abroad because she treated them so poorly, said sources. The latest revelations come as the Governor General's office is under an extraordinary workplace review by the Privy Council Office after CBC News reported claims Payette has belittled, berated and publicly humiliated employees."
CBC
My Conclusion
The "knives" are out, and a "not guilty until proven" argument is being presented. In my opinion, the "Where there's smoke ..." theory, should rule the Privy Council review. The Prime Minister appointed Ms. Payette while rejecting Stephen Harper's request for the usual advisory board selection process and, now, he should whisper our request for her resignation. Permitting her a further embarrassing three years in position could be seen as excessive (If Prince Harry is able to resign, why not Ms. Payette ?).
It could permit the long-awaited nomination of someone from the indigenous community, perhaps.
Yesterday Morneau,tomorrow Payette, both sacrifices to the idiot PM Trudeau who holds all power in his baby hands. It is to shift his failures to other people on the basis that Canadians will forget what he has done. He's a megalomaniac as much as Xi, Putin, Trump and the others, even Harper in his time. We MUST get rid of him before he does more irresponsible damage to our country.
ReplyDeleteOnly "yesterday" and "tomorrow" ? Surely, it's between one election and another.
DeleteNow, we learn that the president of the Queen's Privy Council has been given a new position (Intergovernmental affairs minister). Not to mention the rumour of proroguing parliament.
ReplyDeleteWe have nothing against women, au contraire, but there seems to be one or two exceptions.......
DeletePrime Minister Justin Trudeau and his officials never conducted checks with Julie Payette's former employers at the Montreal Science Centre and the Canadian Olympic Committee that might have raised red flags about her behaviour with co-workers and subordinates before her appointment as Governor General, sources tell CBC News. Multiple sources have told CBC News they were stunned by Trudeau's decision to appoint Payette in 2017. They have questioned the prime minister's judgment. Payette and her Rideau Hall office are now at the centre of an unprecedented third-party investigation launched by the Privy Council Office. In July, a CBC News report quoted a dozen confidential public servants and former employees who claim the Governor General belittled, berated and publicly humiliated Rideau Hall staff. Payette was given severance of roughly $200,000 when she resigned from the Montreal Science Centre in 2016 following complaints about her treatment of employees, say multiple sources. In 2017, Payette left the Canadian Olympic Committee after two internal investigations into her treatment of staff including verbal harassment, sources said. CBC
Delete21st January, 2021 -- Governor General Julie Payette resigns.
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