David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/local-government-studholm-rsc8-regional-service-commission-harassment-investigation-1.5010256
Minister removed member of Sussex-area commission after harassment complaint
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David Peters
"...and they don't like people that are asking questions."
David Peters
@David Peters
Asking questions and pointing out gov't deeds can get you charged with harassment. Another reason for elections and short term limits for Judges, Crown Prosecutors, Police Chiefs and City Managers.
The bureaucracy, in general, has become untouchable and insulated from any kind of outside influence, imo.
Asking questions and pointing out gov't deeds can get you charged with harassment. Another reason for elections and short term limits for Judges, Crown Prosecutors, Police Chiefs and City Managers.
The bureaucracy, in general, has become untouchable and insulated from any kind of outside influence, imo.
David Amos
@David Peters "Asking questions and pointing out gov't deeds can get you charged with harassment."
Methinks you are well aware of what happened to me N'esy Pas?
Methinks you are well aware of what happened to me N'esy Pas?
David Amos
Methinks Tony Raymond and I should have a long talk ASAP N'esy Pas?
David Amos
@David Amos Well we talked eh Tony?
David Amos
Methinks a lot of folks will
find it awful comical that Jeff Carr and Fat Fred City's former clerk
oversee my garbage N'esy Pas?
Lou Bell
@David Amos Who cares ???
David Amos
@Lou Bell They do
Gary MacKay
Clearly there is a problem
with this extra level of government. If eleven people that are supposed
to represent an area can be replaced by one person it would indicate to
me this level of government is entirely unnecessary.
Rosco holt
@Gary MacKay
Or they cleared any opposition by replacing them with one government hack.
Or they cleared any opposition by replacing them with one government hack.
Lou Bell
@Rosco holt They sat on
their be h--ds for over a year , presented NO BUDGET and didn't /
wouldn't do their jobs ! They had a mandate , didn't do it , and
apparently had no interest in doing it ! What is your recommendation
????
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
There isn't much on what was the plans proposed for the 2.2million budgeted, it could have been good or bad but there isn't much details.
There isn't much on what was the plans proposed for the 2.2million budgeted, it could have been good or bad but there isn't much details.
David Amos
@Lou Bell Who cares?
David Amos
@Rosco holt "Or they cleared any opposition by replacing them with one government hack."
YUP
YUP
Rosco holt
I have the impression that this restructuring is more about clearing opposition to fracking than a complaint.
Was the alleged harassment investigated and proven?
Was the alleged harassment investigated and proven?
Lou Bell
@Rosco holt If you read the
story , you'd see the investigation started a year ago when the LIBERALS
were in power and the investigator recommended he be fired ! Next !
Rosco holt
@Lou Bell
It didn't post the whole story to be read.
It didn't post the whole story to be read.
David Amos
@Lou Bell Cry me a river
David Amos
@Rosco holt "I have the impression that this restructuring is more about clearing opposition to fracking than a complaint."
Me Too
Me Too
Lou Bell
Every other Regional
Commission issued budgets, this one didn't ! And they also had a problem
LAST YEAR !! If they can't do the job , get someone who can , plain and
simple ! Some people are fine with them sitting and doing nothing !
They had a problem last year when Liberals were in power , and they had a
problem this year when the Conservatives are in power. There appears to
be a problem with this Commission .
David Amos
@Lou Bell Methinks you are so upset because this is about the Irving Clan's interests in the area N'esy Pas?
Harold Benson
@David Amos What can we do....now medavie...
David Amos
@Harold Benson Sam didn't tell you who owns Ambulance NB?
Harold Benson
@David Amos Who?
Christine Martinez
And this is the society we
now live in. We don't know if Tony Raymond is guilty of harassment. We
don't know if he's innocent. No investigation, no review. The man was
fired because the accusation was made. Guilty unless proven innocent
seems to be the standard these days.
Minister removed member of Sussex-area commission after harassment complaint
Local Government Minister Jeff Carr used his broad powers to remove Studholm commission representative
Days before he disbanded the 11-member
board that handles solid waste management and land planning in the
greater Sussex area, Local Government Minister Jeff Carr quietly fired a
member who had been accused of harassment.
The Regional Service Commission 8 was notified of Tony Raymond's removal on Feb. 1, more than a year after a complaint was made by an employee in its Sussex office.
Raymond represented the local service district of Studholm on the commission's board of directors.
He maintains there was no harassment, just a few jokes about Steve Roberts, the commission's executive director.
Raymond said Thursday that the complaint against him was punishment for being outspoken.
"When I was on the board, I used to ask a lot of questions, and they don't like people that are asking questions."
Sometimes, Raymond said, he'd call the office with a question for Roberts, only to be told the executive director was at home that day.
"I'd say 'God, it must be nice to be home and get paid for it,'" he said. "Because I'm self employed, right? If I take a day off work, I won't get paid."
Roberts said he was not the person who filed the harassment complaint.
"As executive director, my duty was to appoint an independent investigator as per our [human resources] policy to make sure the employee's complaint was taken into consideration and dealt with appropriately."
The circumstances leading to the complaint have not been revealed.
A spokesperson for Carr's department said the Regional Service Delivery Act gives the minister broad powers to remove board members "for cause or for any incapacity."
On Monday, Carr formally disbanded all remaining Service Commission 8 board members as a result of a months-long deadlock over the commission's 2019 budget.
Brenda Knight, a former Fredericton city clerk, has been appointed by the minister to take over all of the board's responsibilities.
Raymond vows to attend meetings and ask questions as a member of the public once the commission's board is re-established by the minister.
Raymond said local service districts need strong representation on the deeply divided commission.
"I've always been a huge supporter of rural New Brunswick, the rural areas," he said. "I'm very vocal about the rural way of life and what happens in rural New Brunswick."
The Regional Service Commission 8 was notified of Tony Raymond's removal on Feb. 1, more than a year after a complaint was made by an employee in its Sussex office.
Raymond represented the local service district of Studholm on the commission's board of directors.
He maintains there was no harassment, just a few jokes about Steve Roberts, the commission's executive director.
Suspects retaliation
Raymond said Thursday that the complaint against him was punishment for being outspoken.
"When I was on the board, I used to ask a lot of questions, and they don't like people that are asking questions."
Sometimes, Raymond said, he'd call the office with a question for Roberts, only to be told the executive director was at home that day.
"I'd say 'God, it must be nice to be home and get paid for it,'" he said. "Because I'm self employed, right? If I take a day off work, I won't get paid."
Followed HR policy
Roberts said he was not the person who filed the harassment complaint.
"As executive director, my duty was to appoint an independent investigator as per our [human resources] policy to make sure the employee's complaint was taken into consideration and dealt with appropriately."
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The circumstances leading to the complaint have not been revealed.
A spokesperson for Carr's department said the Regional Service Delivery Act gives the minister broad powers to remove board members "for cause or for any incapacity."
Whole board gone
On Monday, Carr formally disbanded all remaining Service Commission 8 board members as a result of a months-long deadlock over the commission's 2019 budget.
Brenda Knight, a former Fredericton city clerk, has been appointed by the minister to take over all of the board's responsibilities.
Raymond vows to attend meetings and ask questions as a member of the public once the commission's board is re-established by the minister.
Raymond said local service districts need strong representation on the deeply divided commission.
"I've always been a huge supporter of rural New Brunswick, the rural areas," he said. "I'm very vocal about the rural way of life and what happens in rural New Brunswick."
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