In the interests of helping out justice minister Tom Marshall, here’s a link back to a January 2009 in which your humble e-scribbler offered the members of the provincial legislature the entire text of draft whistleblower protection legislation.
We are now two years into the unfulfilled promise of such protection and all government has offered is excuses like ‘Oh it’s complicated.’ Well, legislation is apparently not so complicated that they couldn’t ram through the expropriation bill last December or bring other legislation in the recent sitting that amended legislation from last year that isn’t even implemented yet.
And here’s the kicker: the draft whistleblower legislation first appeared in Ye Olde Bond E-mail Inbox in April 2008!
Jinkies, as Velma would say.
With this draft legislation, the boys don’t even have to sweat it. They can just cut and paste the bill and send it offer to work through the system.
Incidentally, back in January, we were helping out then-justice minister Jerome Kennedy*. Seems like this is getting to be a trend.
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*R’uh R’oh Update: That would be a mistake. Jerome and Tom swapped portfolios the previous fall. Jerome was quoted last year giving excuses as to why his department still wasn’t ready with whistleblower legislation, but the minister of justice since 31 October 2008 has been Tom Marshall.