When you’re the Khan, you don’t need reasons
“The political opposition parties don’t check the power of the prime minister. Parliament doesn’t check the power of the prime minister. Media doesn’t check the power of the prime minister. You might as well elect Genghis Khan.”
— Ottawa lawyer Richard Mahoney
Actually, we did.
And now we have another example of Stephen Harper riding roughshod over due process at the expense of five talented people.
The man named as Canada’s new privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien, placed dead last in the competition for the job in the opinion of the selection committee that interviewed all six candidates.
He was considered by the panel to be a work-a-day deputy minister — competent, not brilliant.
Therrien was not even interviewed by the panel at the same time as the five other competitors — all of whom had direct experience as privacy advocates, while Therrien had none. His interview came two weeks after the others, and after the panel agreed that the top candidate was Lisa Campbell, a lawyer and rising star at the Competition Bureau.
http://www.ipolitics.ca/2014/06/03/when-youre-the-khan-you-dont-need-reasons/
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