It Wouldn't Be In The Liberals Interest To Hide Bad News So.........

January 11, 2008

Do You Think It's Easy To Keep Librano Secrets?

Greg Weston;

Liberal leader Stephane Dion went thermonuclear for the cameras this week, accusing the Conservative government of hiding a damning auditor general's report on the federally owned atomic energy company.

Seems the report made public this week has been around since last September.

Turns out that's about five years less than an even more alarming report on the same nuclear agency by the same federal watchdog, buried by the Liberals since 2002.

In fact, the Liberals never did release Auditor General Sheila Fraser's earlier bombshell. You are reading from it here first.

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On Nov. 15, 2002, Fraser sent a copy of her report to then Liberal resources minister Herb Dhaliwal, along with a covering letter imploring him to meet to discuss her alarming findings, particularly "unresolved issues with the government" and their potential impact on "the management of environmental risks at AECL sites."

Two months later, Dhaliwal replied, in part: "As your report was quite clear and acceptable to me, I felt no need for us to meet at this time. I was particularly pleased that you saw evidence of strong leadership ... and found that good systems and practices existed in several key areas."

h/t reader Al W.

Posted by Kate at 2:33 PM