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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Ok, I phoned
the CBC telephone number 1-866-306-4636, spoke to a person, and left my name and
phone number.<BR><BR>I explained that there was an inherent flaw with a
journalist on contract. The problem is that if someone didn't like what the
journalist was reporting <BR>or took offense to the coverage they gave to a
sensitive topic, it would be easy to get rid of that person by not renewing his
or her contract.<BR><BR>With contracts, there are no messy and sensational
grievance tribunals, just "poof," the person is history. This is a particular
concern for those of us who live in the peripheries of Canada, or "the regions,"
as some like to <BR>call it.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>It may seem a
tad paranoid, but an excellent example is Peter Milewski. He is a CBC journalist
who got himself in the wringer over the APEC controversy in 1997.<BR><BR>As you
might remember, the Mounties started hosing everything that walked or crawled
with pepper spray during the APEC summit. There was great concern <BR>that
protestors would endanger President Suharto of Indonesia, among others.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Mr. Milewski
reported on a possible link between the actions by the Mounties and the
PMO.<BR><BR>The point is, would Mr. Milewski have a job today had he been a
contractor?<BR><BR>Here is a link to the CBC archive on Milewski's
case:<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.cbc.ca/story/Canada/national/1999/03/23/milewski990323.html"><FONT
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size=3>http://www.cbc.ca/story/Canada/national/1999/03/23/milewski990323.html</FONT></A><BR><BR><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>If you want to go a step further with this, the
irony is that most of the players have been disgraced, censured, or deposed. For
example, Suharto was deposed, Jean Carl, who was a heavy weight in the PMO has
been censured and disgraced.<BR><BR></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{<BR>Terry Mulcahy<BR>PO Box 425<BR>23
George Street<BR>Sydney, NS<BR>Canada B1P 6H2</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Murphy's First Law:<BR>If anything can go wrong, it
will<BR>Murphy's Second Law:<BR>Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad
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