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Watching the performances at the Public Accounts Committee of the legislature last week has given me cause to ponder. How does NB continue to roll with public servants refusing to disclose essential information accurately to legislators? Where did accountability ever go? Is the legislature only an inconvenience in government?
I remember it well! Impressionable university student, wanting to learn about business and organizations. Business 101: the beginning and introductory course aimed at instilling in young students the fundamentals of organizations. Accountability was drilled into us. For every person in the organization there must be clear accountability to someone; that someone on the organization chart used to teach us was the person who can hire or fire that person, as well as setting performance standards, expectations of performance and professional behavior.
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As the school year re-opens with all the joy and excitement that normally brings, of course the damper of more covid once again seems to be hitting the media and rumor mill.
There have been calls from a variety of sources for a serious assessment of the response to the Covid-19 pandemic in Canada. This was one of the most challenging social and health crises in the country in generations and anything that significant justifies an honest, arms-length review. Such a review should not be a forum for finger-pointing, name-calling, or nastiness to be publicized; there has already been enough of that. Canada, and each province individually, has serious lessons to be learned and hopefully corrections made before further variants throw the population back into panic. |
AuthorKen McGeorge, BS,DHA,CHE is a career health care executive based in Fredericton, NB, Canada. Archives
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