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Comment on Canadian Foreign Policy I Agree With? by Mike Lenzen

Mike Lenzen — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:12 +0000

I’m glad you find it interesting. I started the Blog in January, so I guess it’s taken me about 6 months to develop the traffic I have now. Truth be told It’s not a very impressive amount of traffic I pulled in about 780 unique visitors last month. But, it has been steadily increasing every month.

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Jonas Labrum — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:59:35 +0000

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Comment on Canadian Foreign Policy I Agree With? by Mike Lenzen

Mike Lenzen — Sun, 02 May 2010 15:03:07 +0000

Thanks for the positive comment. I’ll see what I can do about writing up some new posts.

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Comment on Did The Red Cross Employ Slave Labour? by Mike Lenzen

Mike Lenzen — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:29:48 +0000

Good comments, thank you. The title of the blog post was probably a bit too edgy. I took your advise and changed it to something a bit less accusative.

It may well be that there was only one isolated case affecting 40 or so workers, and the things I suggested may well have been done. My point was that the radio interview did not do much to bring that across. I would prefer if the Red Cross came across as leaders in this instance and spoke more of what they were doing to prevent anything like this from happening in the future, regardless of the accuracy of this CBC report.

Comment on Did The Red Cross Employ Slave Labour? by Robert Dannocan

Robert Dannocan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:46:44 +0000

I should have added that in my earlier message, I wasn’t looking to get something posted online – just thoughts you may want to consider for any subsequent blog. Changing the headline and perhaps offering the Red Cross link would seem reasonable though.

RD, Toronto

Comment on Did The Red Cross Employ Slave Labour? by Robert Dannocan

Robert Dannocan — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:40:56 +0000

Virtually everything you suggest the Canadian Red Cross ought to do has, in fact, been done. The fact that the Radio-Canada/CBC report intentionally ignored or minimized those actions does not mean they did not occur. Reporting them would take away from the sensationalism of their report. The complainant in the Radio-Canada report claims to know that “thousands” (direct quote) of workers employed by the Red Cross were not paid. The Canadian Red Cross over the course of its work in tsunami reconstruction only employed approximately 2,000 workers. If “thousands” were not paid, why would they continue to work? And for that matter, why on earth would “thousands” of unpaid or underpaid workers stick around to build 6,600 earthquake- and tsunami resistant new homes in 22 communities? I understand from Red Cross friends that they offered to have CBC interview any or all of their field staff in Indonesia along with the contractors who hired scores of subcontractors, only two of whom apparently did not fully pay some of their workers in one of those 22 communities. Yet the Radio-Canada/CBC crew refused to even meet with Red Cross staff in Indonesia who would have first-hand knowledge of everything Radio-Canada they were reporting on. One has to question Radio-Canada’s ethics in covering allegations against these people yet refusing to meet with, let alone interview or fairly present, their views. They chose instead, after the storyline was completed and interviews in Indonesia were finished and they had packed up and returned to Canada to interview one senior Canadian Red Cross official in Ottawa, and then used only a couple of brief, partial quotes from him so the full context of his response is never given to viewers.

If posting a link to the original CBC story, why not include as well the link to the brief Red Cross statement in response? (http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=34473&tid=001).

Incidentally, your headline “Red Cross employs slave labour” leaves you wide open to legal action. You might wanna do something about that – unless of course you can prove the headline is true or that it constitutes “fair” comment, which are the only defences Canadian courts accept.