| Letter to Members of the Standing Committee on Finance ... Ottawa, Ontario ... April 12, 2010 Mr. ... Standing Committee on Finance House of Commons Ottawa, K1A 0A6 Dear Mr. ..., Please accept with my compliments a copy of Shooting the Messenger, a true crime story. In the 1980’s while working as Financial Systems Analyst with the Department of Foreign Affairs I discovered that Foreign Service personnel were helping themselves to more than seven million dollars a year to which they were not entitled (Chapter 12, The Fifty Percent Solution). I used my computer expertise to design and program what became known as the Currency Fluctuation Reporting System which made it impossible for the Canadian Foreign Service to steal from the currency exchange surplus without being detected. Later, this system was integrated within the Departmental Financial Management System (Chapter 34, Proof of Perjury) at about the same time that I was dismissed from the Public Service on bogus insubordination charges (Chapter 23, A Sunny Day in May). It was years later that I learned that my former Director at Foreign Affairs, and perhaps other (Foreign Affairs refuses to confirm or deny that bonuses were paid) were given extra cash for the impact my discoveries had on their careers after Joe Clark became aware of what had gone on (Chapter 35, The Betrayal of Joe Clark). This knowledge was the catalyst for writing my tell-all-tale in the hope that when honest, honourable men and women in a position to right the wrong that was done after reading my book would do so, or at least try. Treasury Board would have had to authorize this alleged extraordinary payout, which former Ambassador Raymond Chrétien speculated was a reward to an employee for shielding his superiors from accusations of impropriety. The same Treasury Board who caused me to lose mine by intimidating an adjudicator into upholding my dismissal from the Public Service (Chapter 27, Blackmail!). Please get in touch with the Minister of Finance and/or the President of Treasury Board and remind them that they don’t need the Honourable Lawrence Cannon’s permission to do the right thing. Sincerely Yours _____________________ Bernard Payeur Encl.: Shooting the Messenger, A Whistleblower’s Tale Cc: The Honourable Lawrence Cannon
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