Letter from Alasdair McKay to:
Mr. Gerald F. DeYoung
Office of the Ombudsman 20 Jun 94
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Dear Mr. DeYoung,
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Thank you for your letter of 16th June. I recognise that
my brief to you did not perhaps define sufficiently precisely the
complaint which it would seem appropriate to have your office address.
You are no doubt inundated with work in these troubled times, and I will
try (without wishing in any way to limit your investigation of other
points which may arise out of my earlier fax to you) to emphasise the
questions on which I think you should focus your attention:
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1. At the time of my dismissal, both my own actions and the advice of
my legal adviser were based upon the assumption of the veracity of
statements made in Mr. Nickerson's letter to
me of 6th April 1992. Since
that time, it has become clear, through the appearance of the following
documents, that Mr. Nickerson's letter was misleading :
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a. letter of Mr. Nickerson to Dr. Prior (19th
Oct 92).
b. publication by NSRFC of geophysical
papers (Feb 1994)
c. contract between NSRFC and NS Dept. of
Natural Resources.
2. The N.S. Dept. of Natural Resources failed to put this contract
out to public tender (probably on the advice of NSRFC that no-one else
was in a position to carry it out). As a consultant in geophysics with
knowledge of the subject matter of this contract, I might have wished to
bid on the work (as might others).
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I think that you will agree, on reflection, that it would be
inappropriate for me to follow your counsel in filing a complaint with
the N.S. Barrister's Society about advice given me by a lawyer to whom I
was unable, at the time he gave the advice, to supply with all of the
pertinent information, some of which has come to light only very
recently.
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Yours sincerely,
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Alasdair McKay
cc The Hon D. Downe, Minister of Natural Resources
The Hon R. Bragg, Minister of Economic Renewal
Dr. J. Savage, MLA, Dartmouth South.
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