{"id":32870,"date":"2014-11-27T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=32870"},"modified":"2014-11-27T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T16:47:10","slug":"b-c-auditor-general-considers-probe-of-health-firings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/27\/b-c-auditor-general-considers-probe-of-health-firings\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. auditor general considers probe of health firings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33008\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg\" alt=\"audit economy stock invest investigate\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/shutterstock_177316355-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>VICTORIA &#8212; B.C.&#8217;s auditor general is considering launching a second probe into the firings of eight health researchers after a former deputy minister accused the Liberal government of attempting to make him a scapegoat.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria labour lawyer Marcia McNeil is already reviewing the health researchers&#8217; 2012 firings, which have led to out-of-court-settlements, reinstatements and were followed by the suicide of a student.<\/p>\n<p>The auditor general&#8217;s office says it is looking into the potential of its own review and whether it could add anything beyond McNeil&#8217;s report.<\/p>\n<p>Former deputy health minister Graham Whitmarsh says he contacted the auditor general&#8217;s office after refusing to participate in the current review, which has a reporting deadline of Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p>He says McNeil is independent, but the review is not and appears to be set up to make him take the fall for the firings.<\/p>\n<p>Legal documents released last week from Whitmarsh&#8217;s lawyer to the provincial government say the unrealistic deadline and scope of the current review reflects the government&#8217;s intention of using Whitmarsh as a convenient scapegoat to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA &#8212; B.C.&#8217;s auditor general is considering launching a second probe into the firings of eight health researchers after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":33008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}