They Just Don't Get It

 Last week it was revealed that Roshi Chadha, an asbestos exporter , sat on the board of the Canadian Red Cross,certainly someone an organistion like the Red Cross would be loathe to be associated with.Yet far from distancing themselves from Chadha and demanding her immediate resignation they instead supported her.

A Montrealer with ties to the asbestos industry has resigned abruptly from the governing body of the Canadian Red Cross after the humanitarian group rallied behind her as a "valued member" of its team.

They just don't get it and likely never will because for the most part the people who sit on the boards of organisations like the  Red Cross no longer reside in the same society as the rest of us. At least Peter Robinson of the David Suzuki Foundation had the class and morals to realise just how gawd awful the boards support of Ms Chadha truly was and resigned. Sadly with Robinson's resignation the board likely lost the only sane voice it had.

Asbestos Trader sits on Board of Governors of the Canadian Red Cross

That's right folks as difficult as that is to believe. Roshi Chadha a member of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Red Cross is also an asbestos exporter.

Since 1981, she has been an executive of Seja Trade Ltd., a Montreal company that has for years been exporting asbestos from the open-pit Jeffrey asbestos mine in Quebec to India

To add insult to injury her husband one Baljit Singh Chadha is lobbying the Quebec government for a $58 million loan guarantee in order to open a new asbestos mine, presumably to keep the family business supplied with it's merchandise of death.

I don't know about you but I am rapidly losing faith in just about everything  these days.

h/t @carolaik