Wednesday, November 28, 2012

How much longer can Gwyn Morgan's comedy column in the Globe and Mail continue?

Every couple of weeks Gwyn Morgan is given a platform by Canada's newspaper of record, to pontificate on matters close to his heart.

What's close to his heart tends to revolve around certain predictable themes.

Government bad. Private sector good.

Regulation bad. Unfettered exploitation good.

Socialism bad. Capitalism good.

Unions bad. Minimum wage too generous.

You get the picture.

It's a pretty straight-forward regurgitation of the old-school neo-liberal manure wagon.

And in his spare time Gwyn is on the lecture circuit preaching about corporate ethics!

I know!

Every time I write those words, or even ponder such an improbability, I laugh so hard I wet myself, and all that out-of-control belly laughter leads to simultaneously having an asthma attack... then I'm trying to change my shorts while clinging to my puffer for dear life... I swear the man is trying to kill me!

Gwyn made his fortune as CEO of one of the world's biggest gas exploration companies, Encana. Under Gwyn's headship they became a leader in bringing industrial scale fracking to shale formations and fresh-water aquifers near you.

Since his retirement (i.e. waddling away with his pockets bulging with loot after selling out to a Chinese government controlled oil major, aka "the commies") Gwyn found himself sitting in the chair reserved for the Chairman of the Board of SNC-Lavalin, Canada's leading construction conglomerate.

Since Gwyn has graced that chair, his international head of construction operations, Riadh Ben Aissa, has been arrested in Switzerland, where he is awaiting trial on fraud and money-laundering charges.

And today, former SNC-Lavalin CEO Pierre Duhaimer was arrested in Canada on similar charges.

That's quite an ethically challenged operation you preside over, Mr. Morgan.

I can hardly wait to open the Globe and Mail and read your next column on corporate ethics!

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