A twist in the tale
Kirk Makin’s remarkably under researched piece on Richard Warman disgraced the pages of the Globe and Mail today. But amidst the one sided, almost certainly planted, rubbish there was this little gem.
In an unusual twist that infuriated his enemies, Mr. Warman obtained a job in 2002 as an investigator for the CHRC. Two years later, he was laid off – an act Mr. Warman attributes to a “poison-pen” campaign by the extreme right. globe and mail
I have always wondered whether Warman jumped or was pushed out of the CHRC. Now we have it from Warman himself that he was pushed.
Previously, the line had been that Warman was “laid off” due to budget cutbacks (though there was no evidence of such cutbacks). Now we learn that the poison pens of unnamed members of the extreme right were so powerful they got Lucy fired. In 2002. Before the CHRC was on the radar of people who have more than two people a day come to their websites. Under a Liberal government.
Yeah, right.
September 21st, 2008 at 5:59 am
In this article Warman implies it was his badgering of the commission that resulted in his being let go:
“The lawyer hardly smoothed the waters, pushing the commission to initiate its own complaints.
“Let’s just say I was always poking them with a sharp stick.”
When the commission decided to make cutbacks last year, Warman says he was the only investigator laid off.”
http://www.stopracism.ca/pages/search.php?article_id=147
September 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Jay,
It seems he was pushed; but as Blazing Cat Fur noted in the Globe comments, the present version of the story clashes (surprise!) with one Warman previously told:
Funny, he seems to have changed his story, in the following article Warman implies it was his badgering of the commission itself that resulted in his being let go:
“The lawyer hardly smoothed the waters, pushing the commission to initiate its own complaints.
“Let’s just say I was always poking them with a sharp stick.”
When the commission decided to make cutbacks last year, Warman says he was the only investigator laid off.”
http://www.stopracism.ca/pages/search.php?article_id=147
My my my…
September 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
What I found kind of inspiring about the article was that the G&M website posting had massive reader feedback in the comments. The majority of it chiding the author for his obvious distorted optics of its subject.
The online community is an informed community and crass politically gratuitous spam pieces like this are transparent to them and actually repulsive…and the comments showed this.
BTW: Jay, another great Al and Mike (and occasionally Jay) Show in the digital can….insightful and entertaining (as usual). Suggestion: Make the economic landscape sit-rep as standard show feature..
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:33 am
The comments are now closed at the Globe and Mail. Not only closed, but unviewable. Is this normal G&M practice?