Politicians can’t seem
to figure out, like other people, that public servants, like other people, are offended
when the political leadership fails to tell the truth.
No one likes “cover up”.
Some readers may
remember the recent assertion, by the Minister of Transportation and Works,
that the discovery of the fuselage of an old military airplane was responsible for
the increased cost and delay to the new Virginia Park School Elementary School.
The CBC reported:
“Brazil said that safely removing the airplane required a lot of time and an
additional $6 million….securing the extra funding also held up the process.”
Other media gave similar reports.
David Brazil would have us
believe he was working hard to expose the former Fort Pepperell army dump site.
He was actually trying to bury a significant cost to the public purse,
knowledge of which he preferred people stayed ignorant.
