Nuclear regulator fired – too keen on safety

Keen’s name has since been added to a growing list of senior mandarins and heads of federal watchdog agencies who have either quit or been fired, ostensibly for arguing their cases too forcefully, or adopting a positions frowned upon by the Harper government…..

Former nuclear regulator named to Eastern Ontario health authority By pauline tam, Ottawa Citizen February 14, 2011 OTTAWA — Linda Keen, the former nuclear regulator who was fired from her job after running afoul of the Harper government, has been appointed to the board of Eastern Ontario’s health authority.

Until January 2008, Keen served as president of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, which shut down the nuclear reactor in Chalk River over safety concerns. The government said it had lost confidence in her and terminated her appointment.

Her removal was seen by opposition parties as political interference by the federal Conservatives. Keen’s name has since been added to a growing list of senior mandarins and heads of federal watchdog agencies who have either quit or been fired, ostensibly for arguing their cases too forcefully, or adopting a positions frowned upon by the Harper government…..

Former nuclear regulator named to Eastern Ontario health authority

February 15, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized

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