Whistleblower Claims Prime Minister's Office Tried to Silence Enbridge Gateway Pipeline Critic

The Canadian Prime Minister's Office tried to cut funding of a registered intervenor in the Enbridge Pipeline Review, calling ForestEthics Canada an, "Enemy of the Government of Canada" and an, "Enemy of the People of Canada", according to allegations detailed in a sworn affidavit, dated January 23, 2012.

Sworn by Andrew Frank, former Senior Communications Manager with ForestEthics Canada, and an instructor in the Environmental Protection Technology program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, the affidavit cites three senior managers with Tides Canada and ForestEthics, as well as personal email correspondence.

"Today, I am taking the extraordinary step of risking my career, my reputation and my personal friendships, to act as a whistleblower and expose the undemocratic and potentially illegal pressure the Harper government has apparently applied to silence critics of the Enbridge Northern Gateway oil tanker/pipeline plan," says Frank.

LINK (Via: MarketWire)

Mr. Frank has also written an open letter to the citizens of Canada.

It isn't like this is the first troublesome thing to come out of Canada

Comments

[Queequeg]

Why does this not surprise me? The more I read about bullshit like this the less faith I have in humanity. In Wisconsin, the legislature just proposed a bill (written by a mining company) that would eliminate all mining regulations (water quality, land management, restoration requirements, etc) because it "might create as many as 700 temporary jobs." Cool. 700 temp jobs for a billion year old Lake Superior landscape...not a bad trade off.

[yuhyu9hujio]

The hands of big business have the puppet of government on strings. I agree with Queequeg 100%. Not to mention they have a million friggen estimates when it comes to potential temporary jobs. Some will tell you 200 and others will say 2000. But the bottom line is there merley TEMPORARY and the damage done is not.