Trainee of the Month: Winner for January....

Our Conservative member for Parliament: Mr. Gary Lunn.

Not content to let things go on autopilot, this Trainee wrote a letter demanding inaction from the head of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

But why Trainee of the Month? Isn't this just a political dust up?

No. Because it threatened 60% of the world's diagnostic testing with radioactive isotopes, and has restarted a crappy, underfunded Model T of a reactor.

Because Gary had the position of Resources Minister for two years, and had every opportunity to get his Trainee head around the fact that persistent problems has swirled around AECL for at least 10 years.

So, while this guy bags some $225k per year, he also has a staff of 12 burning over $1.2 million a year - offering a pleasant 37.5 hour workweek for those Conservatives connected enough to slip into a minister's patronage post. As well, his operating budget has enough room to park a semi-trailer in.

And in the two years this gerbil has been running the place, he never thought to ask what the Auditor General has had to say about it before he got there? Or his staff?

Please.

This Trainee is well deserving of the badge - one will be sent on it's way with an official "Trainee of the Month" Certificate of Achievement.

Way to go Gary!