The 'Peter Principle': In an organizational hierarchy, every employee will rise to his or her level of incompetence.
London lawyer Kevin Egan and others are stunned by Madeleine Meilleur’s move to Ontario attorney general from corrections
The promotion of a cabinet minister who "created chaos" and "left corrections in a mess" has astonished inmates, advocates and opposition critics.
But some said they’re happy to say so long to Madeleine Meilleur if her replacement even tries to do a better job.
“I am gobsmacked. People have died on her watch,” London lawyer Kevin Egan said Wednesday in response to news Meilleur was promoted to attorney general from community safety and correctional services minister.
“If they (the Liberals) are taking her out of a portfolio where she has been an absolute failure and put her into a possibly even more important portfolio as attorney general, it’s obvious that they don’t have any bench strength,” Egan said.
A former inmate at Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC) also expressed shock at learning of the promotion.
“Oh wow,” said Michael Smith, assaulted by other inmates while serving a four-day sentence for mischief in 2012. “I’m quite a bit surprised because it wasn’t good down there at all.”
Part of a $325-million class- action suit launched by McKenzie Lake law firm against the province over conditions at EMDC, Smith wondered if the Liberals were trying to save face.
“They wanted her out of there but couldn’t fire her?” he said.
Meilleur, MPP for Ottawa-Vanier, took the cabinet post in October 2011. Her tenure was marked at several facilities by labour strife, inmate violence, and political controversy, nowhere more than at EMDC.
Despite attempts to improve conditions, EMDC was rocked in October by the brutal beating death of inmate Adam Kargus and this year, charges against three employees for failing to provide the necessaries of life. More...
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