vendetta by civil servants

Angry in the Great White North

Michael Fortier ordered bureaucrats to ask the Royal Bank of Canada to rejig its losing pitch in order to match BMO’s winning bid.

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then-minister Michael Fortier ordered bureaucrats to ask the Royal Bank of Canada to rejig its losing pitch in order to match BMO’s winning bid.

The Canadian Press Photo: Conservative candidate Michael Fortier greets voters in the riding of Vaudreuil-Soulanges in Hudson, Que., on...

Ottawa was warned that $1.5 B Public Works bid scheme ‘unsound’

Privy Council Office

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Prime Minister announces changes in the senior ranks of the Public Service 15 May 2007 Ottawa, Ontario
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced the following changes in the senior ranks of the Public Service, which are effective June 4, 2007:

I. David Marshall, currently Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services, becomes Senior Advisor to the Privy Council Office, pending his next assignment.

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selling much of the government's real estate holdings,

deputy minister David Marshall

Public Works' purchasing and real estate arms were abruptly dismissed

Public Works fires pair who ran two key branches   The two high-powered executives recruited to help remake Public Works' purchasing and real estate arms were abruptly dismissed yesterday before finishing their three-year terms.   By The Ottawa Citizen September 1, 2006 The two high-powered executives recruited to help remake Public Works' purchasing and real estate arms were abruptly dismissed yesterday before finishing their three-year terms.

A memo from deputy minister David Marshall said special advisers David Rotor and Douglas Tipple would no longer be leading the reforms of the department's procurement and real estate operations and their work would immediately be turned over to senior bureaucrats heading those branches.