Getting to the bottom of things

P.E.I. has become the buttocks of Canada.

Islanders are indifferent people; anyone who speaks out is labelled as negative and is blacklisted. P.E.I. has no provincial ombudsman to investigate schools, hospitals, police, municipalities or politicians. The latest incident is the breach of privacy at a seniors home in O’Leary in which photographs were taken and the Liberal government held disclosure.

The public civil service is as much to blame for P.E.I. being the backside of Canada for not supporting the creation of a provincial ombudsman.

The province and civil service has placed our island in a position where lives are at risk and having school boards, health boards and attorney general investigating themselves is gross attempt at a cover-up. Wrong doses of medication, suicides in hospitals, province paying for $61,000 in legal fees after a man was falsely accused and the death of a four-year-old boy. The province is using our money to seek a judicial review for income support of people with mental illnesses but can’t provide funding for a provincial ombudsman.

The province is stonewalling on placing municipalities under the Access to Information Act, yet it is suggested that Summerside and Charlottetown become the centers of health care. Bullocks. The province can easily merge the privacy commissioner, conflict of interest commissioner, ethics commissioner and police commissioner into one entity providing accountability to Islanders.

Islanders including the public civil service who deny accountability are demonstrating to Canadians that we are not progressive.

The public civil service has to explain the latest incident at a seniors home and the province has to explain why there was no disclosure. John W.A. Curtis, Summerside