Regarding your Toronto Sun article, "Iggy's icky intentions", dated
Tuesday, September 8th 2009, you use quotes from Duff Conacher,
founder of Democracy Watch. http://www.dwatch.ca/

I have met him and have had a chance to talk with him, a handsome
intelligent guy and *seemingly* WELL! PAID.

The problem is this: where does his financing come from?

We have the same problem with the Canadian Taxpayers' Association
which is a HUGH! organization. http://www.taxpayer.com

If the Government pays them,
then, they are NOT! independent.

And from my perspective,
there can be NO OTHER EXPLANATION.

Having worked EXTENSIVELY! in the Gov't MORE! than a decade
in 22+ Gov't departments, agencies, and organization having
completed 75+ temp assignments with 15+ temp agencies
including the Public Service Commission, I came across people
who are VERY! WELL PAID in Crown corporations for NO! OTHER
REASON than THEIR! CONNECTIONS in the Canadian bureaucracy.

YES! they are WELL! EDUCATED and WELL! PAID,
but what do they do - really?

NOTHING! in my opinion.

I've even come to understand that A MINIMUM of 1/3 of the jobs
in the Gov't are PLACEHOLDER JOBS meaning that it does NOT!
matter who occupies the position, a horse, a donkey or a manager's
mistress who writes for him - an example I came across.

Another example, I understand, is a guy well up in the Gov't
bureaucracy who reassures his wife during their divorce that
he can get her a GREAT! good job at CSIS and even have her
in charge of an intelligence operation so she can get LOTS!
of $$$. So she comes to Ottawa from London, ON and moves
diagonally across from CSIS Headquarters until she relocates
by the Governor General's House in Edinburough: I got to
work with her in a call centre in Ottawa. :o)

I could go on and on, Nuff! said.

Personally, I think, it would have been SMART! of you before
asking him your questions, if you could have found out about
his budget, his salary, things of a financial nature re: him+his
organization, BECAUSE IT'S ALL ABOUT THE $$$.

If he's NOT! that legitimate, he'd probably SQUIRM! LIKE A
WORM.

That said, I enjoyed your article: thanks.

Regards,