| Re: "Gwyn Morgan is hardly a champion of ethics," by Jeremy Klaszus, Watch Dawg, May 4-10, 2006.
As a consistent reader of Fast Forward, I found the column about Gwyn Morgan’s appointment to the Public Appointments Commission insulting. This offence is not a result of the premise of the column – it is due to the attempt by the writer to use his opposition to a government and its policies to abuse the "human compassion and decency" of a fellow citizen, and to try to convince his readers that the conclusions are applicable.
The problem with this editorial is that, of the stated complaints levelled against the appointment, none of the examples relates to the qualities required for the position. None of them had any relation to Mr. Morgan’s ability to oversee the transparency and integrity of the process of federal appointments.
Mr. Klaszus says that Mr. Morgan has, in the past, supported the Conservative party financially, doesn’t believe in government "monopolies," is a trustee of the Fraser Institute, doesn’t support state-run day care and had an opinion on the tactics used by the Liberals in the last campaign. These statements are probably true. However, Mr. Morgan’s position is intended to be one that implements and oversees a process that avoids patronage and focuses on merit for positions in our bureaucracies, not one that oversees the appointments themselves.
Even Mr. Klaszus’s description of EnCana’s behaviour in Ecuador doesn’t shed any light on his ability to construct and oversee a transparent process.
Using unrelated shock and emotion to destroy the character of an individual in the interest of furthering one’s own political beliefs is unbecoming of a supposed journalist and of this publication.
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