3rd Nanny Claims Dhalla Abuse
| 5/8/2009 | Posted by Patti under General |
A third nanny is claiming that Ruby Dhalla and her family hired her to work illegally and then proceeded to overwork her. Specifically, this one claims Dhalla’s mother did most of the overworking her. The same mother who while needing a nanny to care for her manages to use Dhalla’s flying privileges as an MP to travel to various places around the world.
Ruby Dhalla, having resigned her critics position, has now asked the Parliamentary Ethics Commissioner to examine her role and decide if she has done anything wrong. The Immigration Committee is calling her accusers to appear before them to testify about their alleged abuse. All very nice, good feed for the media but nothing of any substance.
If Ruby Dhalla is truly determined to restore her reputation and clear her name, she needs to call in the RCMP and invite them to investigate if she has broken any laws. If she can come out of their investigation without facing some jail time, then she will have restored her name.
One of the problems with asking the Ethics Commissioner to examine her actions is that the request first has to be examine to determine if the Ethics Commissioner has jurisdiction. If she doesn’t then she has to decline to act which will allow Dhalla to trumpet that she has been vindicated. The public will swallow that without noticing that she hasn’t been vindicated, just that the buck needs to be moved to the more appropriate venue, a police investigation — or whoever has the power to investigate and prosecute violations of immigration law, labour law and human rights abuses.
Never mind the feeding frenzy, let’s see this properly examined and ruled on.
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