Imagine for a second. You are Mark Carney, Govenor for the Bank of Canada. You oversee Monetary Policy in Canada, and financial markets react to seemingly every word you speak. Recognizing your high work load, you hire an Executive Assistant to assist you in managing your day. The Executive Assistant you hire is young, but is enthusiastic and has previous banking experience albeit in a local bank handling personal mortgages.
Continuing on with our imaginary situation - economic leaders around the world agree to congregate in New Delhi, India, to help solve the world's economic woes. As the Governor of the Bank of Canada you begin to asemble your team to work with you at this all too important meeting. You agree to bring with you leading experts in the field of economics, statistics, financial modelling. You bring political leaders, or do you.? Imagine, for a second you bring your executive assistant to act as one of your chief economists. Impossible? In the world of finance likely yes, but in Canada's amateur sport system, scenarios like this happen on an all too frequent occurence. The most recent example was the announcement of the mission staff for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Alex Baumann, executive director of the Own the Podium program, oversees Canada's Summer Olympic Program. He is in essence the Mark Carney of Canada's Summer Olympic Program. And to assist him with this cause, the Own the Podium program hired Shelley Milton in January 2008 to be his executive assistant. Previous to this post Shelley was an administrative/project coordinator for Field Hockey Canada. However, with a little more than 12 months on post as an executive assistant for the Own the Podium Program, Shelley was chosen as a Mission Staff Memeber for Commonwealth Games Canada at the upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi India. And her role will be in the field of coaching and applied science.
Shouldn't we as tax paying citizens, question decisions like these? After all the Commonwealth Games are a premiere sporting event bringing together thousands of athletes across the commonwealth; they help prepare our Olympians for future Olympiads!
Our summer athletes deserve better.........................don't they?
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