Ms Pegeot was Assistant Deputy Minister at Industry Canada during the same period that she was a Board member for CSA, an entity that reported to her Industry Canada office.
The CSA lobbied Industry Canada during 2012 for “additional limited protections from civil proceedings.” Over several years, the CSA has received from Industry Canada a series of immunities from litigation. Ms Pegeot, in her senior roles in Industry Canada, may or may not have influenced the proceedings in favour of her other interests at CSA, though any protection from legal accountability afforded by her Department to CSA would necessarily have benefitted her also.
The CSA routinely lobbies the federal Government for funding for various activities external to its original Charter. The CSA received $5,623,998.30 from the Canadian governments during 2011. This sum is in addition to CSA’s revenues afforded by governments from sales of access to legal statutes, sales of influence at legislative committees, sales of certification marks, etc. Permitting a senior executive of the Federal Government to hold a Board Membership in a regulatory entity receiving many millions of dollars every year in Federal Government funding is, at best, the appearance of “using their official roles to inappropriately obtain advantage” [Code, Part 1, Section A, Article 3].
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In 2009, Industry Canada appointed Mr. Ash Sahi as Chief Executive Officer of CSA. In 2009, Ms Pegeot was Vice President, Policy & Planning at the Canada Economic Development, Regions of Quebec agency, itself an autonomously run subset of Industry Canada. It should further be noted that Mr. Sahi is the former Director, Industry and Trade, at Industry Canada. Additionally, Mr. Sahi was the Special Advisor to the Privy Council of Canada.
Also in 2009, Industry Canada appointed Mr. John Walter as Chief Executive Officer of the SCC, the federal body responsible for policing the CSA. Mr. Walter is the former Vice President, Standards Development at the CSA.
Big Government mission creep.. Raises, promotions and benefits all around..
You know its bad when our government needs a government to keep the government on task..
But then again this is only a temporary solution because sooner than later the rot will get to them as well..
The only solution is to keep government as small as possible.. This comes with the free bonus of keeping the people as free as possible.. Where the no mission creep directly benefits the people..
Yes we are talking about people, with a great many good and as hard working as they can be working in a bird cage.. But the damage isn’t done on a personal level its done on a rubber stamp collective level.. Pass the buck, kiss the ring and cash the check..
Lets not forget that any hardships brought down upon our heads will be wiped away at their next collective bargaining session.. Kinda like backhanded support for their own government policy..
They don’t suffer for long, we do..
My first run in with CSA was when I imported a particular machine that needed a CSA sticker on it for use in Canada. CSA didn’t want to test the machine or even look at the schematics of the machine. They wanted money. For a minimal fee you too could have a CSA sticker on your death ray machine.
This kind of corrupt cronyism costs the canadian $30 billion/year according to the Taxpayers Federation of Canada.
Without including the cost of litigation.
Our federal deficit? $28 billion?
The joke of course is that the taxpayer is better off without this help.
The quality of enforcement has degraded , the number of rules has quintupled and the inability of any of these regulators to actually perform the work they obstruct is well known in the trades.
CSA, is nought but an extortion by government, we live right next to a market 10 times our size, a modern 1st world economy so we are told, why are our standards not synchronized with the USA?
As conditions stand,the regulators accept zero responsibility for the catastrophes their interference cause, the public remains at the mercy of the contractors, just like they always have been.
The public has been in no danger from the trades for years, the theatre offered by CSA and government inspection is just an illusion used to rape the taxpayer thro another pocket.
Once had to deal with CSA for getting a sticker for fire proof blinds. Amount requested was over $100,000. Relabeled the product and avoided them all together. There was no concern over the product, it was only the fee they wanted.
john rober
“The public has been in no danger from the trades for years”
well john either U’v never worked in the trades, or U are blind:-))))
I understand you to mean that the public has for years been and is now in danger from the trades. Which would mean that the CSA has been not protecting the public for all of those same years, while charging the businesses and tradespeople for pretending to protect us, with those charges being built in to the costs of doing business that must be recovered from consumers. In such circumstances I object more to the CSA than to the potential dangers the trades present to me.
Tooner you got it.
NME666, no for the 20+ years of my direct experience, the trades have delivered a safe product over all,with a demonstrated better understanding of how to build safe buildings and systems, than the regulators and inspectors.
I speak of genuine tradesmen here, not the phoney govt trained ones..
Very few taxpayers understand the corruption running loose via CSA right now.
Trades are informed through legislation that we must meet certain regulations, we ask to see these rules which by law we must met. We are told , you have to buy the regulations at a preset price from our monopoly.
So you must meet the law.
You ask what is the law?
Pay us and we will let you see…
But at a provincial level these rules will change at the caprice of appointed authorities.
So pay up, we will let you know what the rules are when you try to build.
Then there is the problem of Inspectors, a national embarrassment, a certain type of authoritarian nitwit gravitates to government work and rise to positions of authority.
People so inept they do not understand themselves to be bound by law.
I have a documented case of an electrical inspector forcing modifications to an installation; to meet rule changes announced 4 months later.
3 years of questioning the govt here, apparently no bureaucrat sees any problem with this abuse of power.
The property owner/consumer has and always will be at the mercy of the contractor/tradesman, government has not helped SFA here.They have just created another nest of useless parasites feasting at the public trough and crapping in the production line.
More useless theatre disguising the simple fact; buyer beware.
Joe,
RestoreCSA has a tip line to report this sort of thing, and data such as yours could be quite helpful. I’ll not annoy Kate by linking to it directly, but the tip line is under “contact” at the RestoreCSA website.
Gord
So true. A number of years ago my friend had a run in with an OH&S inspector. The inspector insisted on looking at a welders arc through her sunglasses. I guess she missed the class where they discussed the difference between tinted lenses and welding lenses. I have no problem with standards that are clearly laid out and reasonable to follow. I do have issues where the standards are ‘open to interpretation’. Nudge nudge wink wink “Oh a $100.00 should about fix that deficiency” cough…..
“Industry Canada” is a socialist relic. The economy is about production, trade and consumption of goods and services, and about individuals making their own decisions about what they value. Government intervention, i. e. coercion, cannot improve on this.
It is not the purpose of government to set standards for anything. It is the purpose of government to step in when one person uses coercion on another. This includes fraud, to some extent it will include negligence, and the like.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_%28crime%29
A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, will not be affected, or would not otherwise exist. Conducting a racket is racketeering.[1] Particularly, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, although that fact may be concealed, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage for this party. A prototype is the protection racket, wherein a person or group indicates that they could protect a store from potential damage, damage that the same person or group would otherwise inflict, while the correlation of threat and protection may be more or less deniably veiled, distinguishing it from the more direct act of extortion.
Our rulers are nothing less than criminals, pure and simple.
Ms Pegeot Assistant Deputy Minister at Industry Canada AND a Board member for the CSA
Did she get paid for both jobs?
Ms Pégeot is moving on from DFO, effective 2 December she will be a special advisor to the Deputy Minister of the Department of Justice.