Three senior managers at a government-funded rights agency rocked by allegations of Conservative meddling have been suspended, including one of its longest-serving employees.
A well-placed source with the organization told The Canadian Press that Marie-France Cloutier, Razmik Panossian and Charles Vallerand were suspended with pay from Rights and Democracy late Friday, and told that they were the subjects of an internal investigation.
The three were among the staff that had earlier declared non-confidence in the Conservative-appointed chairman and two board members.
Ms. Cloutier, the resource and administrative director, has been with the organization since 1990, working alongside first president and former NDP leader Ed Broadbent.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/three-managers-taken-off-job-at-troubled-rights-agency/article1451873/Another cut throat mafia like Harper play. May he live to experience the same.