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| Corps of Commissionaires Wayne Grant sits at the desk at his former place of employment, Chancery Place in Fredericton. Grant had his hours cut back after NB Language Commissioner, Katherine d'Entremont laid a private complaint with her own Commission about his inability to speak French. Grant was 10 months away from retirement and the complaint resulted in him being temporarily laid off, then his hours of employment being cut back at the most critical time of his employment career. |
Charles:
Actually, I think the story should be headlined "CBC's handling of Language Commissioner's complaint bizarre"!!I'm disappointed with CBC. Once again, they have lifted a story right out of Charles LeBlanc's blog and usurped it as being their own. But this time, they've gone too far by saying they were the 'first" to cover the "bizarre" story of how NB Language Commissioner Katherine d'Entremont filed a complaint with her own Commission. d'Entremont did so without any consideration of the employee, a commissionaire 10 months away from retirement, who was punished for not speaking French by being temporarily laid off, then having his hours reduced at probably the most critical time of his employment career. All because this fluently bilingual Language Commissioner was pissed that she didn't get served in French first when she approached Wayne Grant at the entrance to Chancery Place in May.
This is no CBC "scoop". I have been reading about this story since May from Charles' website. Here's a July 25, 2015 youtube link from Charles' website in which he shows a document which suggests that d'Entremont was the one who laid the complaint.
And if you listen to the video, he makes it very clear that he believes d'Entrement herself, laid the complaint which resulted in Wayne Grant losing more than half of his weekly hourly wage.
In the height of irony, Charles also pleaded with CBC to pick up on the story and that was more than 3 months ago!!!! Why the sudden interest?
Since none of them want to be "scooped" they skirt the issue of who was the first to cover it but just ignoring the fact that Charles did it first. None had the gall to say they were the first to deliver a scoop, especially on a five month old story that Charles has been blogging to death because he knows the man at the centre of the controversy and feels sorry for the fellow. As an Acadian he feels that the New Brunswick language commissioner Katherine d'Entremont has gone too far, using the veil of privacy to destroy man's career at the cusp of his retirement - Wayne Grant had 10 months to go before retiring when his hours were cut back due to Katherine d'Entremont's sanctimonious holier-than-thou proclamations on language equality. The only person who ever complained about Wayne Grant's lack of French language profiency was her.
And then there's CBC claiming to be the first to cover this story, which as I said earlier, Charles has been blogging to death for five months. I suggest that the CBC, at the very least, remove any such reference to being "the first" to cover the story, and second, to give credit where credit is due.
Finally, whoever wrote the headlines and the intros to Jacques Poitras' story on the treatment of Wayne Grant by the NB Language Commissioner should head back to journalism school and learn a little bit about research. They soon would have discovered Charles LeBlanc has thoroughly covered this story, all by himself, with no giant corporation behind him for the last five months. But that would mean that the CBC inside staff would have to get off their asses and go outside to ask questions beyond what they can find on Google. It's a sad state of affairs when Canada's esteemed CBC stoops so low as to steal a story from a blogger on social assistance and claim it as their own.
P.S..Here's another video made on August 25th -
