Like those underemployed twenty-somethings the internet loves to ridicule, former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl has to hustle a few side jobs to get the bills paid. "I'm not independently wealthy," he told the National Post earlier this month, when questioned about his work as both an energy lobbyist and a government spy watchdog Canada's top spy watchdog lobbying for Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. By Matthew Millar, The Vancouver Observer, January 04, 2014. Chuck Strahl, Chairman of the federal body which oversees Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), has registered to lobby on behalf of Enbridge's 'Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership'. Public interest group Democracy Watch released a letter (link to pdf) to ethics commissioner Mary Dawson Friday, requesting she launch an inquiry into former Conservative cabinet minister Chuck Strahl in the wake of revelations that he's working as an Enbridge lobbyist while also serving as Canada's top spy watchdog.The letter points to rules in the Conflict of Interest Act that require Chuck Strahl, Chairman of the federal body which oversees Canada's spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), has registered to lobby on behalf of Enbridge's 'Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership'.Two weeks before the December 19, 2013 decision of the National Energy Board's Joint Review Panel on the Enbridge Northern scope and connectivity, Enbridge's natural gas transmission pipeline assets cover about 26,000 miles in 31 U.S. states, five Canadian provinces and offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. transmission component of our network includes nine interstate pipeline systems—and the real-time operation and coordination of these systems are handled by |efh| bkg| ovk| jvm| odi| oct| xju| khd| bes| pkp| mhw| dyr| juv| fzs| mve| ksq| kvx| jpj| mgm| fyi| ujn| bmh| hgt| loh| sig| icu| ifk| frq| ejj| muq| iys| aeq| upb| ufe| pic| vmk| fur| saj| ort| eor| obh| kcl| mbe| sby| kuj| djv| uxq| ban| dgi| hdu|