Two possibilities here:
1. The Minister or staff is really sloppy -- that's possible, remember a Quebec Minister of this very government?; or, far more likely,
2. Someone on the Minister's staff wanted this document leaked.
Seriously, who takes a 'secret' document to a broadcast centre and 'forgets' it there?
It sounds more like "I have some papers you mustn't look at right here on my desk. I'm going to the restroom and then will have a smoke so I'll be back in not less than 20 minutes. While I'm away don't look at those documents, the ones in the green folder, right there, ok? And by the way don't use the photocopier I left on over there, ok?".
Someone somewhere in the Minister's office doesn't like privatising AECL and leaked the documents.
'Secret' government documents left behind at news bureau:
Documents related to the Canada's nuclear industry apparently accidentally left behind by Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt indicate the government has invested billions in Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. while cost overruns mount and projects fall behind schedule.
The documents, which were marked "secret," were left at CTV's Ottawa news bureau about a week ago by either Raitt or one of her aides, CTV reported.
The materials, which include handwritten notes, information regarding Conservative government strategy, background documents and reports regarding trying to sell AECL's Candu division, show the government has spent more money on the aging nuclear than has been publicly stated, said CTV.
According to a report among the documents, the federal government has provided AECL with $1.7 billion in funding since 2006.
A talking-point memo describes the spending as "cleaning up a Liberal mess."
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3 comments:
The docs were at CTV for over a week!! Aren't they in trouble?
I agree it was probably a leak but i think for the reason opposite than the one you stated.
This information doesn't seem sensitive at all. I think the Cons and the PMO believe this info will annoy the public into thinking the AECL is a liability and we SHOULD sell it off. This way they avoid bringing it up in house and the resulting attacks for mismanaging the AECL. Instead (the cons hope) the story becomes about this minster and her staff and who left it out, but not about why the AECL has been fumbled around.
They all want it sold.
I am also more inclined to think it was an 'official' leak, designed by Tory strategists to work with their CTV minions, to make AECL look so bad people would think it should be sold off.
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