The Dingwall saga

I'm a little johny come lately to this story, but it deserves comment. $500,000 severence? You've got to be kidding! For a guy screwing taxpayers left, right and center. Paul Wells analyzes appropriately. And Lorne Gunter points out that there is no law that requires a severance to someone who resigns in disgrace.

George Radwanski, former privacy commissioner, didn't receive a severance package, either, when he was forced to resign over his expense excesses in 2003. Or Alfonso Gagliano when he was fired as our ambassador to Denmark. The simple fact is, there is no law requiring Ottawa to pay out the Dinger, so it makes one wonder if Stephen Harper is correct when he says a parachute for Dingwall is simply "hush money." Dingwall knows too much about things the government would rather not have known, and so severance is nothing more than a sop to keep him quiet. Could be.