To your respective neutral corners guys.....it is Canada...not the USA. It is a discussion about one particular EMS operation...a non-profit organization funded by the Government.
The issues that need discussing are simple....and pertain to the particular operation, its business model, the quality of service, the compensation of its executives, the fact those in charge of the non-profit have spun off into other for gain operations on the back of the Non-Profit, taken up a very cozy relationship with the Aircraft Maker that they bought some very expensive helicopters from. Now when the spotlight is placed squarely upon those folks by the media....the government then gets concerned as they are about to made to look like Fools for letting this thing get out of hand. The CEO does a runner for "medical reasons" and the
PR folks say the Media cannot be trusted to make a fair and impartial report and refuses to discuss the situation.
Lets stick to this for a while....as it has the potential to be a very good expose' of public corruption, fraud, bribery, and how not to run an EMS operation even when you cannot lose money no matter how incompetent you are so long as your supporter (in this case the Taxpayers of Ontario ) turns a blind eye to the whole thing.
One could not make up a TV show with a plot as good as this one is going to turn out to be!
I'll ask a rhetorical question.....who was/is going to gain from the re-sale of the 139's when it is determined they could not afford the cost to operate the aircraft? Where overseas (think Middle East) were these things going to wind up and who would have coordinated the deal? Whose pockets were going to get fattened from Consulting Fees, Commissions, and Bonuses?
As an old Fraud Investigator for the US Navy....."Follow the Money!"
Where was it supposed to go....and where did it actually go...and who had the control of the process to make that diversion happen?
If it quacks like a Duck, waddles like a Duck, swims like a Duck....it might just be a Duck!