Signs of poor jugment?

No, signs of a person completely devoid of any sense of ethics or social responsibility.

Most employers do background checks to weed out applicants who have committed serious crimes such as fraud.  They also do them to weed out people who fail miserably at managing their own affairs and finances.  Employers tend to view people who spend recklessly then default on loans as not particularly trustworthy.

Most employers want honest, trustworthy employees, preferably with no criminal record.  You know, people with integrity.

Mob bosses prefer people who are greedy because they can be bought and made to do things that ethical people would refuse to do.  They seek out seasoned criminals because they know that morals and ethics won’t get in the way of getting a dirty job done.  They prefer people who have no respect for the law and no care for who they hurt.

Let’s see who the current Prime Minister of Canada had as one of his top advisors for many years.  Surely a law-and-order type like steve would insist on someone who has absolute respect for the law, someone trustworthy, honest, with a clean record.  Someone who can manage his own affairs ethically and successfully.

Meet Bruce Carson:

- disbarred for forging cheques and stealing $23,900 from a corporation and two individual clients he represented.

- sentenced to 18 months in jail in 1983 for his criminal conviction of two counts of theft for misappropriating almost $20,000 of his clients’ funds by forging their signatures and stashing the money in his own bank account.

- had a habit of “living too high and overspending,” as the judge put it, so that it caught up to him between 1978 and 1980.

- defaulted on an $11,310 bank loan, a $70,000 mortgage for one property, a $3,033.01 loan on a 1978 Lincoln Continental, a $1,189.50 account he’d run up at the Hudson’s Bay Company, another $1,900 bill to a leasing firm as well as having a second house repossessed.  His punishment?  Pay a $13,000 penalty.

Despite (or maybe because of?) this history, steve felt he was just the right guy to act as his close advisor for years.

Now what kind of advice would you expect to get from such a man - a fraudster with no concern of who he harms through his greed?


That harper chose to have Carson close to him in an advisory position is not so much a sign of steve having poor judgment as it is of him being devoid of ethics and respect for our laws.