Whatever happened to Colleen Swords?

You remember?

 

Colleen Swords, a former assistant deputy minister at Foreign Affairs, also denied Colvin's allegations she had told him to stop writing things down.  But Colvin writes that embassy staffers were told "they should not report information, however accurate, that conflicted with the government's public messaging."...As for Swords, Colvin disputes her testimony that those with concerns were told to use the phone first, and then write things down later.  "This is incorrect. Her message to me was that I should use the phone instead of writing," Colvin writes.

The diplomat said the Canadian government responded to his frequent warnings by telling him to stop writing these concerns into reports. He said those asking him to censor himself included David Mulroney, then the senior point man on Afghanistan, as well as Colleen Swords, a senior official at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). 

So where do you send a public servant - and I use the term loosely here - who has a history of doing what she can to cover political ass by lying to the public, muzzling public servants, and doing what she can to make sure there's no paper trail?

Make her interim Deputy Head of another very troubled agency known to be under political pressure.  I was looking through the Hill Times and came across this:

Deputy Ministers’ Breakfasts: Who’s in the room?

45. Colleen Swords, Interim President, Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency

That would be this agency: 

Political pressure and bureaucratic haste are behind a litany of financial management problems at the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency, CBC News has learned.  A draft internal audit found that CanNor violated almost every financial management rule since it was set up in 2009. It has had five different financial officers in that time and currently has an interim president.

I'm sure she'll do a fine job for the harper government.  Too bad she's a public servant.