ICBC concerns never reached the top: report
Management unaware of repaired vehicles sold without disclosing history
Jeff Rud and Lindsay Kines, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, April 17, 2008
Concerns about activities at an ICBC research and training facility in Burnaby were raised as far back as 2006 but never reached the company's CEO or senior management, according to a document tabled yesterday in the legislature.
A letter from ICBC chairman T. Richard Turner to Solicitor General John van Dongen, tabled yesterday, reveals that "concerns about activities at the Research and Training facility were raised on three separate occasions in 2006 and 2007.
"At the time the issues were identified, they were not escalated to the CEO or to a member of the executive committee," Turner wrote.
The six-page letter provides a summary of the investigation into the ICBC centre, including a detailed chronology. That investigation began after employees presented concerns about the facility's operations to an ICBC Special Investigations Unit officer.
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Hmmm, I have to call BS on this one. Several managers bought cars and the CEO has hightailed it out at the first hint of problems. The investigators might want to find out if the employees who “presented concerns” are still employed by ICBC, or whether they later ended up receiving disciplinary letters for trumped up charges, were harassed, were fired, or quit. It’s kind of funny, managers and others who cheat and swindle to get sweet deals on cars don’t like it when peon’s start yapping about things like that. And, CEO’s and executives don’t like peons who blow the whistle on their “superiors” either. Maybe the RCMP should go back, hmm, like 7 years.
One of the key things the BC Liberals did was get rid of the CEO of ICBC, Nick Geer
& install their own guy, Paul Taylor. A post from another blog:
#11. In 2004, Nick Geer, former President and CEO, left
ICBC. Supposedly a mutual thing. Uh huh. Why on earth
would we want this guy in charge of our public car insurance?
He only turned ICBC around and had it in the black. He also
thought the citizens of B.C. should be protected by low rates
for car insurance, good service and coverage. He was also
skeptical about a little thing called privatization. Man, we
wouldn’t want to get used to that kind of fore thought in
our government officials, it gets in the way of the money to
be made by the Liberals buddies, the private insurance companies.
Hmm, wonder how much it cost them to get rid of Geer?
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RCMP to start ICBC investigation
CBC News. April 17th 2008.
George Hancock, spokesperson of the United Auto Trades Association, a group representing auto body and glass shops in B.C., hopes the RCMP investigation will have a broad scope.
"We believe that some of the relationships that ICBC enjoys with organizations in the industry are a little bit too cozy and probably not in the best interests of the people of British Columbia."
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