Dumb ministers

[Risus]

I can see you are beyond help when it comes to how we run things here....don't like it....don't let the door hit your backside on the way out.

Heaven help us all! I agree with you! 8O

 

[benny_patrick7]

The Cabinet Minister's job isn't to be an expert in the field of "insert department here." That is the job of Deputy Minister and other senior level civil servants who have made their careers in the field, who advises the politician running the department on all matters of the government's business for that particular scope.

Most politicians are MD's, economists and lawyers, how many fisherman do you see being elected? How many farmers? How many agrologists for that matter? How many social workers?

We don't require politicized experts...

This is exactly my point. Make deputy minister a minister, save a huge salary and avoid making incompetent thief as a head of a department. Isn't it obvious that the whole practice of combining member of parliament and the minister is pure conflict of interest? As a deputy, he should care about his constituency. As a minister, he should care about the whole of Canada. One person cannot do both, and shouldn't be allowed to do both.

How do you justify his double salary? For some reason, nobody addresses this issue.