Posted on 30/05/05
When the crime has no punishment
Anybody looking for a prize-winning example of bureaucratic gobbledygook need look no further than the transcript of a May 17 encounter between Mr. Justice John Gomery and a senior Treasury Board official about the penalties a civil servant might face for disobeying the government's procedural bible known as the Financial Administration Act.
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