National Post: Tories mulling private AECL?

[tuvor]

Good luck to opposition members of the House of Commons natural resources committee who will demand Tuesday that Gary Lunn be dragged before them to answer questions on his handling of the Chalk River isotope cock-up. They'll have to find him first.

The Minister of Natural Resources hasn't been seen in public since before Christmas, except by one alert letter-to-the-editor writer who spotted him in a Canadian Tire store in Vancouver.

No wonder he's made himself scarce. Who'd want to be hauled in front of a parliamentary committee and asked awkward questions such as: "Minister, did you really write that letter to nuclear regulator Linda Keen asking her to give one good reason why she shouldn't be fired, or was it penned by someone in the Prime Minister's Office, who told you to sign your name to it on pain of political death?"

We are reliably informed that's what happened. Mr. Lunn has been widely condemned for making Ms. Keen, president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the scapegoat in this whole affair. But it's possible that the Minister is the fall guy for a caper dreamt up in the Prime Minister's Office.

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http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=237451

[Hand]

1. "Private Chernobyl" would be more accurate.

The more we see of these so-called "ministers" (McKay, Lunn, Bernier, Baird, Oda, Day, Ambrose... :puke:), the more obvious it becomes that we've got a bunch of idiot amateurs in Canada's "New" government. What a gang of incompetent boobs! :grr: :nuke:

:rant:

[pbca]

2. The only one who is halfway competent

is Harper himself, and he knows it. That's why he keeps hiding ministers, forbidding them to speak in public and booting them out of caucus when they do. He knows they are incompetent and he knows that most Canadians don't support their positions, so: keep quiet and hide. Harper himself has only visited the press gallery once or twice since being elected.

[daleo]

3. The Globe had an article along these lines today, as well

I have assumed from the get-go that this was a manufactured crisis, and that there must have been big bucks involved.

[Hand]

4. You are correct, sir!

This whole thing has been about privatization from the get go--next thing we'll see is Blackwater taking over the Princess Pats. :grr: