The Mackintosh Watch is at Day 16 and there is no sign that the Family Services Minister will respond to our request for an interview to allow him to answer the questions stemming from the Gage Guimond death/Sagkeeng First Nation and Cree Nation Child and Family Service reviews.
Questions like:
What will he do to ensure whistleblowers can come forward and be protected from threats of physical harm?
Why did the province hand over millions to the Sagkeeng CFS authorities without ensuring more than a paltry $1000 was spent on criminal background checks and foster parent training?
What responsibility does he and his bureaucrats accept for their failure to protect children in care?
Gord Mackintosh is not alone. Many of his cabinet colleagues, including Health Minister Theresa Oswald, Healthy Living Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross, and their boss Premier Gary Doer, do not even bother with the courtesy of a call to tell us they won't be available to come on the show and let the listeners of Kick-FM hear what the government has to say about the important issues.
It's true, maybe they don't even know. After all in this day of hyper-control by political apparatchiks, we deal with Cabinet Communications staff. Maybe they don't pass the request along to our elected officials. Maybe, as senior producer Captain Audio has heard, the little campus radio signal is considered "lesser media" and has been frozen out by the NDP's spinners.
Questions like:
What will he do to ensure whistleblowers can come forward and be protected from threats of physical harm?
Why did the province hand over millions to the Sagkeeng CFS authorities without ensuring more than a paltry $1000 was spent on criminal background checks and foster parent training?
What responsibility does he and his bureaucrats accept for their failure to protect children in care?
Gord Mackintosh is not alone. Many of his cabinet colleagues, including Health Minister Theresa Oswald, Healthy Living Minister Kerri Irvin-Ross, and their boss Premier Gary Doer, do not even bother with the courtesy of a call to tell us they won't be available to come on the show and let the listeners of Kick-FM hear what the government has to say about the important issues.
It's true, maybe they don't even know. After all in this day of hyper-control by political apparatchiks, we deal with Cabinet Communications staff. Maybe they don't pass the request along to our elected officials. Maybe, as senior producer Captain Audio has heard, the little campus radio signal is considered "lesser media" and has been frozen out by the NDP's spinners.
But one person has gotten a personal invitation, while attending Folklorama. Maybe one day if he can bear tearing himself away from his monthly free hour of answering the listeners on CJOB on Portage, Premier Gary Doer can find our modest little radio studio downtown.
