Monday, 27 June 2011

Canadian Senators Make Big Corporate Cash

Did you know that Canadian Senators are allowed to sit on the boards of huge multinational corporations and serve in the Senate at the same time? It kind of makes you wonder who they’re really working for. At least Members of Parliament have to wait until they leave office to cash in on all the favours they’ve done for their corporate buddies. The revolving door between corporate Canada and the government is an insult to democracy. We here at Operation Maple think it’s just plain wrong, and we’d like to highlight some of the worst offenders.

The Senator Representing Oilsands Quest: Pamela Wallin (Conservative).

Former TV journalist Wallin has been a senator since 2009. She received $136,885 from Oilsands Quest— a Saskatchewan based oil exploration and development company— in 2010. Wallin got a whopping $442,083 in executive compensation from Oilsands Quest in 2009. As a side note, anybody else find it interesting that a woman who made her career working in journalism is now representing a political party hellbent on dismantling our nation’s only public broadcaster? She sure does look at home in that throne though, doesn’t she?
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3 comments:

  1. ANTISMARTMETERBC8 October 2011 at 01:02

    WHAT IS THE NATIONS ONLY PUBLIC BROADCASTER?? I'm on telus ip tv....INTERNET PROTOCOL TV.in Vancouver BC. THEY PRETEND TO HAVE PUBLIC BROADCASTING.. IT'S A JOKE.. Good going with your site... Safety Code 6 (health canada's UN protection from wireless is a great concern.. province by province were getting nuked with mesh networks of wireless smart meters...Rogers got the contract for Montreal.. Citizensforsafetechnology.com or emrabc.com Are both great sites and groups to be a part of

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  2. Duff Conacher27 November 2011 at 07:34

    Please correct your posting -- Members of Parliament are also allowed to sit on corporate boards (only Cabinet ministers, their senior staff, Cabinet appointees (including senior government officials), and public servants are not allowed to sit on corporate boards while in their position). Also, Senators and everyone listed above (except public servants) are allowed to have a financial interest in corporations and other types of organizations that will profit (in one way or another) from the decisions they make. See how to help push to close the loopholes in federal ethics rules that allow for these conflicts of interest, and to close other key loopholes and flaws in the federal government's good government system, at:
    http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/actsystem.htm

    Hope this helps,
    Duff Conacher, Founding Director of Democracy Watch and the http://CoffeeParty.ca movement

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  3. Jim13 January 2012 at 17:52

    Senators should definitely be elected. As if the senator salary isn't enough...

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