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FP says Baird explains ethics of Barrick, CP paycheques

2015-04-13 07:01 ET - In the News

Also In the News (C-CP) Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd

The Financial Post reports in its Monday edition the noun conscience does not seem to carry its old significance. The Post's John Robson writes we live in the era of technique and all man's significant problems shall be solved through applied expertise. When John Baird skipped out of politics right into a series of unbelievably profitable and strangely nebulous part-time jobs he tweated to an anxious public: "I consulted the Ethics Commissioner before joining Barrick and before accepting CP's invitation to serve on their board. Got the green light." There was a time he would have said he had searched his conscience. Instead of morality, Old Testament, singular and judgmental, we have values in the plural, the painless, antiseptic province of experts. Ethics commissioners get their jobs because they are an expert and well connected -- but an expert in what, exactly? Clearly morality is in some sense a matter of the head, not the heart. What worries Mr. Robson is not that we live in a world devised by C.S. Lewis's ghastly National Institute of Coordinated Experiments. It is that we feel so at home here we seek to combat brazen wrongdoing with flowcharts, checklists and experts. Ineffectively, Mr. Robson adds.

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