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"As things stand – the [ B.C. Rail trial ] scheduled to start on May 17 can be nothing but a huge, fraudulent, theatrical event."

This is why removing public accountability is not a good thing. Greed surpasses safety when private companies are mandated and obsessed with profit. In 2005 the cargo wasn't lumber it was toxic chemicals which instantly killed all the fish the Cheakamus, a major salmon spawning river off the Fraser.

In 2007 two CN trains crashed head on near a river carrying flammable liquid in Prince George. Moya Greene helped privatize CN. Don't let a banker derail Canada Post.

"the sale to CN was a fix from the beginning and a political sham” Kevin McCullough, a lawyer for accused Bobby Virk

"More than five years after the unprecedented police raid on the legislature, Campbell still refuses to answer questions about the largest political scandal in BC history," she said.

"Campbell has gone too far in rewarding friends and insiders. In 2001, Gordon Campbell promised he wouldn't sell BC Rail. He broke that promise, and handed a public asset worth a billion dollars to his political friends and donors."  Carol James

I thought the Union was just joking about this. Why on earth does the Tim Hortons web site list Moya Greene as a director?! Turns out that on February 19 2008 Moya Greene also became a director of Tim Hortons. What a joke. I realize that private sector CEO's often double dip on various boards and Moya Greene wants to pretend she is good a business but wtf? The scary thing is that they are sure giving her a lot of money to put her unlucky name on their board. I think we need to start picketing Tim Hortons.

"This means that members have the right to refuse a direct order from the employer to remove their button without fear of reprisal."

A direct order to remove a button. I haven't heard that in a while. It's not the freaking military soldier. This is a perfect example of the petty world at Canada Post. Moya Greene orders her managers to discipline employees for wearing buttons that say Your Public Post Office Delivers... for now and Peace Joy and Universal Postal Service. 

So the Union gets an order from the Arbitrator ordering Canada Post to cease and desist disciplining employees for wearing these buttons. That pretty much says it all. The exact same thing happened at TELUS. They live in a petty parallel universe except worse.

She has snake oil for sale

Take a look at her track record will ya:

Don't let a banker derail Canada Post.

Expanded hours based on customer service is good business. Look at the TD bank. They broke the trend by expanding hours and their business has expanded immensely as a result. Postal banks are already offered in New Zealand and France.

If you are in a service based industry and you keep slashing your services you will reduce your revenue. Moya Greene is bad business.

Yet in Moya's world, Moya Greene says that dramatic cuts to wages, benefits and services are necessary to offset the dramatic reduction in mail volume she anticipates will happen one day. Whatever. How's not picking up the mail on weekends going to increase business revenue? Our competitors do.

When you are in a service based industry and you slash all your services you decrease your business revenue. That's like owning a restaurant and cutting out the menu. I think she's trying to sabotage the company so she is. Privatizing just to screw the employees and circumvent public accountability is not a good thing.  

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You're supposed to be trying to decrease the derailments not increase them. That's what happens when you throw away public accountability. You get bankers out of their field who don't give a rat's a*s about anyone else and thinks everyone else is stupid.

This is why TILMA and the SPP are so dangerous. It gives power hungry Corporations absolute power. It gives them the right to sue any government - federal, provincial or municipal for creating any law that would impede their ability to make a profit. That would include protecting the environment.

Let's look at the nature of the Corporation. They are concerned with one thing only - profit. Instead of trying to decrease the number of derailments by doing the proper brake maintenance and not making the trains so much longer, they send in the Wilcox group to spin the truth with propaganda. 'Well, the Americans are doing it" they say.

That makes a lot of sense. Maybe the Americans have straighter tracks, did you ever think about that? This would be fine for the Prairies, but whole problem is the curved tracks in B.C. navigating through the mountains. Longer trains and reduced brake maintenance cause more derailments when cornering.  Are the weights of the containers posted on them? What happens when a heavy container is placed on a light container?

This is the irony of greed. The obsession for more and more profits shoots themselves in the foot. When their service becomes unreliable with increased derailments, then customers take their business somewhere else. It's a shame. The railway could help the transportation industry greatly. The company I work for stopped using CN because they were unreliable. If it's not broken, don't fix it. If it's making money, don't change it.

2. When did the government first learn that the BC Rail deal was the target of an in-depth RCMP investigation?

3. When will the government release all documents -- including documents which may not be directly linked to the charges -- that relate to government policies or decisions regarding BC Rail?