Nothing but fancy words of deception to placate the Citizen!
The concept of whistle-blower is exposing nefarious activities! Exposing nefarious activities must trump any non-disclosure agreements and/or contracts and for the good of society, must be protected.
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Our feckless politicians won't pass strong whistle-blower legislation for the same reason they deny recall legislation. They tell people that they are Citizens only then to treat people like subjects!
We don't need to go outside of Niagara to find abuse of whistle-blowers! 'News Alert Niagara' points to the sordid CAO of the Niagara Regional Government, Carmen D`Angelo as a prime example of a whistle-blower abuser.
Miscreant CAO Carmen D`Angelo has been attacking any and all who he thinks is spilling the beans on his sordid activities.
To date our sordid CAO Carmen D`Angelo has sued and threatened to sue employees of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA); sued a Niagara Citizen for which the courts handed him his donkey; tried to have the editorial staff at our local newspaper fired predicated on his dislike of articles exposing him; used taxpayer money to hire high-priced Toronto lawyers to carry out his intention to sue 'News Alert Niagara'!
All of this sordid situation has taken place under the opaque gaze of the NPCA Board of Directors!
Now we find, through third-party investigators, that we have regional staff, under D`Angelo, that are fearful of losing their jobs if they dare come forward with pertinent information for a legal investigation into his inappropriate conduct!
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Again we ask; Where is the so-called whistle-blower protection? No! Where the HELL is this so-called and deceptive whistle-blower protection that is supposed to guard against nefarious conduct?
Sadly, we have a few heavily conflicted insiders who refuse to understand why CAO Carmen D`Angelo is so unwanted!
Summery from the group 'A Better Niagara'
This a great summary on the Region's CAO scandal but it doesn't go back far enough. It starts in the early years of the current Regional Council when D'Angelo, a Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority Board member, takes a leave of absence from the board and gets a contract from the NPCA for which no paper trail exists. Then he takes another leave of absence and is hired to be CAO of the Conservation Authority where he proves so useful to the Caslin Cabal that he goes from being CAO of the NPCA, that has a $10 million budget, to becoming CAO of the Region which has a $1billon budget. That's quite a meteoric rise! Throw in a few lawsuits against citizens and ex-employees, the biodiversity offsetting scheme for Thundering Waters, an Auditor General's audit, the gutting of the NPCA's conservation functions, the bullying and harassment of a board member and you have quite a toxic stew.
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