Oh Canada!
Well… the Olympics ended today with a bang as the men’s hockey team brought us to a record 14 gold medals in sudden death overtime (after giving away their lead by allowing the US to score with only 24 seconds remaining!! but let’s not go there).
Very exciting - and enough to make one proud to be Canadian.
But then a long time friend showed up on my msn and - while I was very happy to catch up with him; it’s been too long! - I was less than thrilled to discover that he is still being stonewalled and harassed by the (deadbeat) Canadian government, who have yet to pay him for work he did years ago.
He was hired as a consultant; signed contract, all that good stuff.
And he did the work - which involved a great deal of travel - all of which he paid for out of pocket, expecting to be reimbursed, as per the contract.
He is owed a great deal of money. Well - what to him, you, or me, would be considered a great deal of money. To Natural Resources Canada, of course, it is a drop in the bucket.
But Harper & co. are deadbeats, apparently, and rather than pay what was owed when they came into power, they cancelled contracts, including K’s with Natural Resources Canada.
Cancelling contracts is one thing - refusing to pay what was owed on those signed contracts, quite another.
More than 4 years later, he is still owed more than $100,000 - and to add insult to injury, now he is being hounded for the GST owing on the money he has never been paid.
The media, and other politicians, do not seem interested. The lawyers are, of course - but only insofar as they can make money from it. So far, they haven’t had much … okay, any…. success at getting the Canadian government to honour their debts.
It makes me wonder how many other people got burned in similar circumstances? Does Harper make a habit of not paying his bills? And if so, why is it that the media can’t be bothered investigating this?
Oh Canada, indeed.
