So, thanks to the auditor general, we now find out who is accountable for the disastrous handling of this pandemic. Karen Hogan says it is the deputy minister of health, Stephen Lucas. Although she didn't say his name, she said the deputy was responsible. Ultimately, it is, of course the minister -- the incompetent Hadju -- but within the machinations of the department, it all falls at the DM's feet.
Well, I'm saying his name. As a journalist in Toronto, I dug into every story I wrote, that was my job, and I just had to get to the bottom of this one. In researching it, I found that the clerk of the Privy Council at the time was Michael Wernick who approved the appointment of Lucas -- the same guy who threw Jodie Wilson-Raybould and Jane Phillpot under the bus and had to "retire" early because of his disastrous performance.
Reading Lucas' CV, I found the words "consultation, policy development, climate change, clean energy -- guess he forgot that GM and Ford are really running the economy -- international and intergovernmental relations, policy, planning, coordination....." and blah, blah, blah. In fact, he has a degree in rocks, er, sorry, geological engineering and structural geology and tectonics. In other words, Lucas has never held a real job. So, they put him into health in 2019 to safeguard the well-being of Canadians -- just in time to not deal with the pandemic. Talk about blood on your hands! He has lots of it.
Frankly, government needs only a few departments: "Taxation, defence, corrections, health care and infrastructure. Everything else is bumph, but health care has been a disaster. Hadju and Lucas are accountable.
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