Times are tough for Justice Normand Glaude. It looks as though “researchers” haven’t exactly been clamouring to assist the commissioner at the Cornwall Public Inquiry.
On 30 August 2006 an SOS for researchers was dispatched and the application deadline extended to 16 October 2006. The job op was first posted 25 July 2006 with a 10 August 2006 deadline for applications.
Note that: “Researchers should have no conflict of interest in respect to the work of the Cornwall Public Inquiry.”
It sounds good. But we’ve heard it all before, haven’t we?
“No conflict of interest.”
It must be wordspeak! How else to explain an inquiry which seems awash in conflict of interest? i.e., Attorney General Michael Bryant promised a commissioner with no conflict of interest; Bryant said Glaude had no connections to Cornwall; Justice Glaude seems to think none of his real or perceived conflicts are conflicts; Glaude’s hand-picked Advisory Panel has at least four members whom any reasonable person would say are in a conflict interest (Church, Kaneb, Loftus and Handy), and; a hand-picked “expert” presumably called to give Roman Catholic “contextual” evidence seems to be in conflict (Father John Allan Loftus).
No matter. The SOS is out. All you researchers with “no conflict of interest” have about five weeks left to vie for the available slots. Justice Glaude will have one awful time writing his research report without you.
And there you have it for Tuesday 05 September 2006. The news from the Weave Shed is no researchers and no Father Loftus (see previous blog).
Enough,
Sylvia
(cornwall@theinquiry.ca)
Would it be a conflict of interest if an applicant for researcher would believe in traditional Catholic Moral standards which prevented these problems when they were applied in the past? What do you think?
I’m inclined to think it would be. It shouldn’t be, but that seems to be the name of the game doesn’t it?
Sylvia