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How to keep secrets from the public: Don't write anything down
I wonder Higgy and his mindless minions remember anything
Friday, 12 January 2018
YO Dominic Cardy how can you Conservatives brag of buying Butter Tarts when CBC tells me you dudes have to sell your HQ? Yet you wackos want control of our provincial economy?
http://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.ca/2017/10/methinks-if-blaine-higgs-had-two-clues.html
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Methinks if Blaine Higgs had two clues between his ears he would not have hired the Arsehole Dominic Cardy in the first place
From: "Cardy, Dominic (LEG)" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:22:47 +0000
Subject: Hamish's birthday
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: "Wright, Hamish (LEG)" <Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca>
Dear Mr. Amos,
As a regular correspondent I thought you would like to know that it's
Hamish's 20th birthday! We even gave him some butter tarts in your
honour! I'm sure he'd appreciate a note.
Have a good weekend, best wishes,
Dominic
Special Committee on Electoral Reform
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EVIDENCE
Friday, October 7, 2016
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How to keep secrets from the public: Don't write anything down
Public servants in N.B. don't have to document their work, something advocates want done across Canada
In the span of a few minutes, Higgs dropped three bombshells: he shuffled out the province's health minister, fired the CEO of Horizon Health Network, and dismissed elected board members for both health authorities, replacing them with trustees.
It was a major shakeup, and it was clear the decision came from the premier himself.
"This isn't intended to be permanent, but this is intended to get results," Higgs said that day, referring to the two health authority boards. "And right now I need to see results, and I want to remove the barriers and the roadblocks for our health professionals to achieve them."
But when CBC News filed a right to information request to the Office of the Premier, asking for records about the premier's decision to make changes to health-care leadership, a search returned no records — nothing to help explain to the public how Higgs arrived at such a significant decision.
It's one of several examples of instances where the Higgs government failed to document its work, something public servants in New Brunswick aren't required to do by law.
The concept is called duty to document, and it's something transparency advocates have been calling for in Canada for years.
Keeping records of a government's decision-making is at the core of good democracy, according to Caroline Maynard, the federal information commissioner.
If the public can't get information from government, they'll turn to unreliable sources, according to federal Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard. (Government of Canada)
"What we see is if Canadians are not getting the information from our government or from reliable sources, they will then turn to unreliable sources," Maynard said.
"If our government wants their citizens to have confidence in them, I think that they need to provide them with more and more information, so that they can see for themselves what decisions and actions are taken, and based on what kinds of facts and background information."
When asked about the duty-to-document concept, Higgs said he doesn't believe it's realistic for him to write down details of all the discussions he has with people.
"If I go back to the office now and I meet with a deputy minister in a certain department, I mean, we could talk about everything … that would be just daily routine," he said this week.
"But I'm not writing down every word they say or what they say."
'Verbal discussions,' but no records
When asked about duty to document, a spokesperson for the New Brunswick government said public employees have to "create and manage information about their organization's business and activities in accordance with the New Brunswick Archives Act and other applicable legislation."
But New Brunswick hasn't legislated a duty to document, nor was it a major issue during the last review of the province's right to information and protection of privacy law.
In some areas, it leaves few avenues for the public to understand how decisions are made.
Last year, CBC obtained internal government emails related to a controversial letter sent by New Brunswick Natural Resources and Energy Development Minister Mike Holland.
CBC News obtained records detailing the process behind a letter Natural Resources and Energy Development Mike Holland sent to the Energy and Utilities Board, but they don't reveal how the issue came to the government's attention in the first place. (CBC)
The letter was addressed to the Energy and Utilities Board, expressing support for Irving Oil's application to receive an expedited hearing from the board into its request for higher petroleum margins.
Even though the letter had Holland's name on it, internal government records showed the letter was written by a team of civil servants and sent to the premier, rather than Holland, to decide whether to send it.
But the few pages of records turned over by the government don't explain how the issue came to the government's attention in the first place.
CBC appealed to the New Brunswick ombud, the body that handles complaints about right to information requests in New Brunswick. The ombud's staff found conversations happened within the government, but no one seemed to write anything down, according to a letter sent to CBC earlier this year.
"The department informed the investigator that verbal discussions did take place with regards to this matter but that these conversations were not documented or recorded," the ombud's letter says.
Because public bodies aren't required to create records documenting their work, the ombud's office found the government didn't commit an offence by not documenting the discussions.
Few records on decision to oust top Mountie
Last year, CBC asked for records related to the government's decision to force out the province's top Mountie, Larry Tremblay.
The Department of Justice and Public Safety initially refused to provide any records to CBC, arguing disclosure could "harm relations" between the province and the federal government, and released several pages only after CBC appealed to the ombud.
But the records don't explain how the government reached the conclusion that it no longer had confidence in the New Brunswick RCMP's commanding officer.
Again, the ombud's office found conversations happened and no one kept any records. A letter from the ombud's office sent to CBC last month details how senior officials involved in the matter were asked to search their own records to find relevant documents.
The New Brunswick government forced out Larry Tremblay, the former top Mountie in the province, in 2021. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
"The department confirmed to this office that there were telephone conversations between senior management with the department and federal officials to discuss this matter during the timeframe specified in this request, but stated that it had no further records documenting these phone calls, such as emails requesting meetings, calendar invites, electronic meeting requests, and the like," the ombud's letter says.
When asked whether it's intentional to not always write things down, Higgs said he wants people to "be able to talk openly and freely" about their ideas.
"Because any idea that might come out, you end up reading about it the next day, which really wasn't a consideration or not a consideration," Higgs said.
"So I think it's fair to say there's always that in the back of your mind when you're having discussions, but it's not an intended process. It's like many things we do, by verbal discussion. Many things we do by just talking to one another in the department heads with different ministers and different people in the process."
Pandemic exacerbated problem, commissioner says
Advocates like Jason Woywada describe situations like this as "verbal government," where governments don't create records that may be subject to access to information requests in the future.
"The fact that a premier or any member of cabinet or government is saying they made a decision based on a phone call leads us to question, well, how do we know that's the right decision?" Woywada said.
"Where is the written documentation that supports that? What is the information that was conveyed in that communication? That's important."
Woywada is the executive director of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Association in British Columbia, a province that introduced a duty-to-document law in 2017.
But Woywada doesn't see the changes as meeting the requirements of a duty to document. He said it could prevent someone from deleting information once a right to information request is filed, but it doesn't prevent someone from not creating a record out of fear someone might file a request for it.
He'd like to see the onus within governments shift toward how to document decisions properly.
Working during a pandemic has exacerbated the problem, according to the federal information commissioner. Whether people are working from the office or home, Maynard said federal public servants should be finding a way to keep a record when decisions are made.
But she also thinks it's a cultural problem, where public servants decide what they want the public to know.
"Ultimately, sadly, the best legislation that you can have will not solve this issue if people do not have a sense of duty that they have to make documents so that people can access them," Maynard said.
Hells Angels burns their meeting notes in a barrel, I'm told.
Nixon made tapes of everything.
Politics today needs the same.
Deja Vu Anyone???
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 17:33:45 -0300
Subject: YO Higgy As I read Louis Leger email published by Mr Jones I
wonder how many of your cohorts read the emails and the note about the
Butter Tarts etc you sent me before I ran against
Tammy.Scott-Wallace's uddy Bruce Northrup
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'Have you heard anything from Andy C?' Hidden name in government emails about Irving Oil revealed
Newly unredacted note between civil servants suggests contact with Irving Oil executive
"Andy C" appears to be a reference to Andy Carson, a senior executive with Irving Oil.
The name was redacted in an email chain between department officials who were working on a government effort last winter to support Irving Oil Ltd.'s attempt to win higher petroleum margins from the EUB.
"Have you heard anything from Andy C?" read the original email between civil servants, which was released to the CBC in February with the last five letters blanked out.
An email to Blaine Higgs from his chief of staff, Louis Leger, on Jan. 5 showed the premier was deeply involved in a government effort to help with Irving Oil's request for fuel price increases. (GNB)
However, late last week the full sentence was provided following a CBC News complaint to the New Brunswick ombud's office about a number of redactions in material supplied by the department.
The full complaint has not been resolved, but in a letter last Friday the department's deputy minister Tom MacFarlane wrote to disclose that one of the redactions involved blanking out the name "Andy C."
"The Department has reviewed the previously withheld records and engaged in discussion with the Office of the Ombud," wrote MacFarlane. "Please find enclosed a revised record."
CBC's request for information from the department centred on a Jan. 5 application by Irving Oil to the New Brunswick Energy and Utilities Board to raise petroleum wholesale margins in New Brunswick by amounts that, if awarded, would have cost consumers about $1 million a week in increased fuel costs.
Shortly after the increase was applied for, a letter over the signature of Mike Holland, the minister of natural resources and energy development, was sent to the EUB in support of Irving Oil's request for an "expedited" review of its application.
Holland was criticized by a number of parties for contacting the independent board, but records obtained by CBC News following a right to information request showed he had little to do with writing the letter or the decision to send it.
It was produced by a team of civil servants working for days on strategies on how the government might assist Irving Oil and was submitted directly to Premier Blaine Higgs for approval.
The "Andy C" email was written late in the day Dec. 29 by assistant deputy minister Bill Breckenridge to department director Heather Quinn as senior officials scrambled to prepare for a briefing requested by Higgs on Irving Oil's plans to ask for fuel price increases a week later.
MacFarlane, the deputy minister, was notified at 7 p.m. on the 29th of the premier's desire for an update and, despite the hour and the holidays, immediately sent instructions to Breckenridge to find details.
Tom MacFarlane, deputy minister of natural resources and energy development, revealed last week that 'Andy C' was the name hidden in the release of emails to CBC News last winter. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
"Can someone confirm with IOL [Irving Oil Ltd.] or EUB if the request has been made and if not when it is expected," wrote MacFarlane.
At 8:40 in the evening, Breckenridge did the same to Heather Quinn.
"I hope you had a nice Christmas," read his note "And I hate to bother you but as per the following: have you heard anything from Andy C?"
No one in the Department of Natural Resources connected to those emails was available Friday to confirm if Andy C is a reference to Irving Oil executive Andy Carson, what he was being consulted about, or why the department tried to keep the name secret.
Carson is Irving Oil's director of energy transition and a former head of the company's public affairs division.
Irving Oil Ltd. applied to the EUB for 'urgent' wholesale price increases in January but abandoned the application in March. Government documents revealed the province attempted to find ways to help the company. (Devaan Ingraham/Reuters )
If the redaction was meant to dispel any impression the department was coordinating with Irving Oil about its desire for price increases, Higgs has already acknowledged the two bodies were in contact.
In a March interview he said there had been discussions with the company about its troubles and what it wanted prior to the application being made in January.
"I was aware of what they were seeking to do," Higgs told CBC News.
"They would have been presenting their case to cabinet, some members, not necessarily all members."
Initially, the Department of Natural Resources claimed it was not required to disclose "Andy C" under exceptions allowed if doing so would be "harmful to a third party's business or financial interests." However, that argument has been abandoned.
Carson did not respond to an email asking if he knows whether the reference in the government correspondence is to him.
Irving Oil eventually abandoned its application for higher wholesale prices in March.
http://davidraymondamos3.
Friday, 12 January 2018
YO Dominic Cardy how can you Conservatives brag of buying Butter Tarts
when CBC tells me you dudes have to sell your HQ? Yet you wackos want
control of our provincial economy?
http://davidraymondamos3.
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Methinks if Blaine Higgs had two clues between his ears he would not
have hired the Arsehole Dominic Cardy in the first place
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From: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 14:00:20 -0400
Subject YO Dominic Cardy how can you Conservatives brag of buying
Butter Tarts when CBC tells me you dudes have to sell your HQ? Yet you
wackos want control of our provincial economy"
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From: "Cardy, Dominic (LEG)" <Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:22:47 +0000
Subject: Hamish's birthday
To: David Amos <motomaniac333@gmail.com>
Cc: "Wright, Hamish (LEG)" <Hamish.Wright@gnb.ca>
Dear Mr. Amos,
As a regular correspondent I thought you would like to know that it's
Hamish's 20th birthday! We even gave him some butter tarts in your
honour! I'm sure he'd appreciate a note.
Have a good weekend, best wishes,
Dominic
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/
David Amos
Strange just today Dominic Cardy was bragging to me they have lots of
money to spend on Butter Tarts
Methinks the PCs are gonna lose the electin bitime with him as Mr
Higgs' Chief of Staff N'esy Pas?
(Piss Poor spelling a grammer I know but the real question is will CBC
even allow the comment o stand the test of time EH Jacques Poitras and
Hubby Lacroix?)
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From: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 14:57:57 -0400
Subject: Yo Brucey Baby is that your signature I see on the note with
the treats from Mr Higgs that your buddy Dominic Cardy sent?
To: kelly@lamrockslaw.com, david@lutz.nb.ca, David.Coon@gnb.ca,
blaine.higgs@gnb.ca, brian.gallant@gnb.ca, briangallant10@gmail.com,
bruce.fitch@gnb.ca, Brian.kenny@gnb.ca, Dale.Morgan@rcmp-grc.gc.ca,
kirk.macdonald@gnb.ca, postur@for.is, newsroom@globeandmail.ca,
Bill.Morneau@canada.ca, bill.pentney@justice.gc.ca,
jan.jensen@justice.gc.ca
Cc: david.raymond.amos@gmail.com, bruce.northrup@gnb.ca, Dominic.Cardy@gnb.ca
http://davidraymondamos3.
Thursday, 2 November 2017
Yo Blaine Higgs I just called and tried to talk to your buddy Hamish
Wright Trust that I don't care that Dominic Cardy is concerned about
his fondness for butter tarts
Yo Mr Cardy Do Ya Think This Dude Cares About Your Dumb Puffin?
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From: Póstur FOR postur@for.is
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 16:16:32 +0000
Subject: Re: Yo Mr Higgs I updated the blog for the benefit of your
mindless assistant, your pal Chucky "The Welfare Bum" Leblanc and his
many LIEbrano buddies for obvious reasons N'esy Pas David Coon?
To: David Amos motomaniac333@gmail.com
Erindi þitt hefur verið móttekið / Your request has been received
Kveðja / Best regards
Forsætisráðuneytið / Prime Minister's Office
https://www2.gnb.ca/content/
News Release
Executive Council Office
Office of the Premier
Transition team announced
06 November 2018
FREDERICTON (GNB) – Premier-designate Blaine Higgs announced a
transition team to liaise with the civil service in the period leading
to the swearing-in of the new cabinet.
“A group of talented New Brunswickers have agreed to work with our
government to help ensure a seamless transition,” said Higgs. “These
team members bring decades of experience and expertise in the private
sector, governance and politics to this important process.”
The team members are:
Louis Léger: With over 25 years of business experience, Léger has
spent much of his career at the centre of the Atlantic Canadian
marketing communications industry and was recognized by Progress
Magazine as one of Atlantic Canada’s top 50 CEOs. Léger is on the
board of directors and chairs the finance committee of the Donald J.
Savoie Institute on Public Policy Research. He has also served on the
Université de Moncton’s board of governors.
John Mallory: A retired deputy minister of finance, Mallory served
for 15 years under six premiers and seven finance ministers.
Edith Doucet: Doucet has 33 years of experience in the public
service, including time as clerk of the Executive Council and head of
the civil service. She also served as deputy minister of social
development, healthy and inclusive communities and intergovernmental
affairs.
Bob Youden: Youden is a partner in Savarin Consulting, a
consulting and holding company for business interests. He has over 30
years of experience working in the private and public sectors.
Paul D’Astous: A retired chair and CEO with the New Brunswick
Insurance Board and former vice-president of sales and marketing with
Assumption Life, D’Astous is the executive director of the Progressive
Conservative Party of New Brunswick.
“Premier Gallant and I have met to discuss the transition and I want
to thank Mr. Gallant and the senior officials in the civil service for
the work they have done,” said Higgs.
https://www.facebook.com/CCNB.officielle/photos/a.409758169062792/461299450575330/?type=3
Forum provincial sur l’apprentissage
BATHURST
– La directrice par intérim du CCNB ─ Campus d’Edmundston, Lise
Ouellette, a coprésidé récemment le Forum provincial sur
l’apprentissage, en compagnie notamment du premier ministre de la
province, David Alward. Le Forum, qui se déroulait à Fredericton les 5
et 6 novembre, a rassemblé plus de 70 personnes, y compris des chefs de
file d'organismes communautaires et d'apprentissage, du gouvernement,
des universités et collèges et du secteur privé. Lancé en novembre 2010,
le projet Apprendre : Un projet collectif visait à rassembler et
engager les personnes dans une conversation sur la valeur de
l'apprentissage continu. Aujourd’hui, il vise toujours à engager les
citoyennes et les citoyens du Nouveau-Brunswick dans l’acquisition et le
maintien d'une culture de l'apprentissage. Sur la photo, de gauche à
droite : John Herron (coprésident), Lise Ouellette et le premier
ministre David Alward.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/edmundston-female-candidates-1.5494901
Women take over Edmundston's municipal election race
5 women plan to run in spring municipal election: 4 for council seats, 1 for mayor
If successful this May, the group could make history as the most women ever elected in Edmundston.
The four announced their intentions to run together on Monday, the day after International Women's Day.
"It's never been done before," said Ward 2 candidate Denise Landry-Nadeau.
Landry-Nadeau is joined by Sylvie St-Onge, Marie France Fournier and Karen Power, each of them businesswomen and entrepreneurs in their community.
It's not that we don't want the men anymore. It's that we want to be equal.
- Denise Landry-Nadeau
Edmundston has four wards, each represented by two council members.
Landry-Nadeau said it's time some of those seats were filled by women.
"Usually, it was a man's world at the city council, and I think people are ready to have change," she said.
"It's not that we don't want the men anymore. It's that we want to be equal."
Joining them in the race is Lise Ouellette, a current councillor who hopes to become Edmundston's first female mayor.
Ouellette will take on Deputy Mayor Charles Fournier in the race to succeed Mayor Cyrille Simard, who announced earlier this year that he won't be running again.
Vying for spots around Edmundston's council table are, from left, Sylvie St-Onge Morneau, Denise Landry-Nadeau, Marie-France Fournier and Karen Power. (Submitted/Denise Landry-Nadeau)
Ouellette is Edmundston's only female councillor and she's looking forward to having some camaraderie at council.
"It's like being any minority in any situation. You prefer not to be the only one."
For Ouellette, having balance and different perspectives around the council table is an asset.
"Don't vote for me because I am a woman, as you should not vote for somebody because he is a man," she said.
"I expect citizens to look very carefully at the candidates, hoping that they know that a balanced council makes better decisions."
Making history
It's not the first time New Brunswick has seen a large number of women run in a municipal race in one community.
For example, in 2008 Port Elgin made history by electing an all-female slate of candidates.
Even today, Port Elgin's leadership is made up of one man and four women, including Mayor Judy Scott.
The small town also made history by electing New Brunswick's first female mayor, Dorothy McLean, in 1959.
Historically though, the world of politics is male-dominated, according to women's equality advocate Norma Dubé.
Coun. Lise Ouellette is hoping to become Edmundston's first female mayor. (Submitted/City of Edmundston)
"I think the women have always been there,," she said. "The issue has been that perhaps they weren't being given the same consideration or the same opportunities as perhaps their male counterparts in wanting to get involved in politics."
According to data from Elections New Brunswick, the numbers are slowly getting better. In the 2016 municipal election, 23 women were elected as mayors and 164 were elected as councillors.
But compared to the 82 male mayors and the 361 men who were elected to councils, there's still a big gap.
Norma Dubé has been fighting to see more women enter politics through the initiative Women for 50%.
"It is extremely important and I think critical that we have women in these roles because they will raise issues that are not necessarily top of mind for their male counterparts," said Dubé.
That's why she has been involved with the Women for 50% initiative, which aims to get more women into politics in New Brunswick.
She said working with women so they see themselves reflected in leadership roles, or holding campaign schools so that they know the ins and outs of politics are all ways to eliminate barriers.
Five women running together in a New Brunswick city is a sight that gives her hope.
"I love their courage in doing this, I wish them the best, and I wish we would see that in every municipality across the province," said Dubé.
Nomination papers for candidates are due by 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 9. Voters in municipalities across the province head to the polls on Monday, May 11.
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1775742/lise-ouelette-candidate-mairie-edmundston
Lise Ouellette wants to become the first mayor of Edmundston
Two months before the municipal elections in New Brunswick, the leader of the associative world Lise Ouellette announces her candidacy for the position of mayor of Edmundston.
Lise Ouellette chose International Women's Day to confirm her candidacy.
It
is with great enthusiasm and determination [that I] wish to take up the
new challenge of becoming the first female mayor of Edmundston
, declared Lise Ouellette in a press release on Monday.
Ms. Ouellette intends to make known her program and her commitments in the coming weeks
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Community Profile - Edmundston
Address
7 Canada Road
Edmundston, NB E3V 1T7
Mayor
Eric Marquis
Diane Bélanger Nadeau
Eric Desjardins
Denise Landry-Nadeau
Eric McGuire
Eric (Boum) Morneault
Aldéo Nadeau
Karen Power
Sylvie St-Onge Morneau
County
Madawaska
Contact
Tel: 506 739-2115.
Fax: 506737-6902
www.edmundston.ca/en/
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