martes, 29 de octubre de 2013

Some gov't severances 'obscene' - Medicine Hat News


By Letter to the Editor on October 29, 2013.

I would dearly love to know where I can apply for a senior executive position with either AHS or Premier Alison Redford's office. All you have to do is show up a few times, then get them to end your contract and you get to cash in the remainder of your contract or you might get a new title and a "little" cash to ease the pain.

AHS executives get an undeserved $3 million bonus, Good ol' Fred Horne, minister in charge of overseeing the private contractor known as Alberta Health Services, fires the board that approved those same undeserved million dollar bonuses and paid out another $4 million in severance payments to fired board members. Stephen Carter ex-chief of staff to our globetrotting premier, gets let go and Ms. Redford refuses to tell the taxpaying citizens of Alberta how much he received to go quietly into the night. It must have received an obscene amount, why else the secrecy? Did anyone notice that Dr. Chris Eagle, not the AHS CEO anymore, gets to mooch around doing the least he pleases for a year or more on the provincial government payroll at full pay and benefits, while we pay Duncan Cameron full pay and benefits to be the new AHS CEO.

In the meantime the health minister and Alberta Health Services intend on centralizing lab services into a "provincial hub" in Edmonton at a paltry $3 billion.

All this while flood affected Albertans are still waiting for provincial bureaucrats, provincial contractors and special deputy ministers responsible for deflecting hard questions regarding flood damage away from the premier.

Ian Parkinson

Medicine Hat



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