CBC: Conflicts of interest alleged in federal job exchanges

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Ian Scott was a high-level executive at Telus Corp. when he was headhunted by the federal government to work for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

“I was approached by the chair ,” remembers Scott. “And he talked my employer into it.”

The Telus bosses allowed Scott to join the broadcast and telecommunications regulator under the government's Executive Interchange Program. Scott would take the public service job as chief policy adviser to the chair for a year, between the fall of 2007 and 2008, then go back to the private sector.

The interchange program welcomes people from the private sector, academia, Crown corporations and other government agencies to fit into executive roles in the public service for up to four years. Participants continue to make their private-sector salary and their employers are reimbursed by the government.

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