the mint is missing gold, silver, platinum and palladium

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The current CEO/Master of the Mint, Ian Bennett was appointed by Stephen Harper (a Conservative government appointed patronage position) on June 12th, 2006.  Other high level executive partonage appointments at the Mint have also been appointed since then.

As for inventory accounting of the precious metals, all was fine and accounted for during all of the annual independent audits during the Liberal government regime.  It was only until the past year has there been missing precious metals at the Mint under the current Conservative government.   

For some reason, the (Conservative) Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Christian Paradis, knew the facts about the missing gold much earlier, but delayed to involve the RCMP until recently.

Sorry if I offended on the political statement but it was in humor....we all know it could be anyone including an organized clique within it's own walls. It could even be sitting at the bottom of the Ottawa river slipping out the discharge pipe...anyways my guess it isn't one person that pulled this off.
Will the case be solved....I would say yes....will heads roll....yes!

Reported today the RCMP still hasn't started to look....

Does anyone else find it odd that while the gold has disappeared from the Mint, government responsibility for the mint has been with the Minister of TRANSPORT?  i.e. the minister in charge of moving stuff around the country?

Ok so...... RCMP completed their investigation and they have "RULED OUT THEFT", ok..... so where the heck did it go then? LMAO

http://www.mint.ca/store/news/theft-ruled-out-as-rcmp-completes-investigation-into-precious-metal-reconciliation-at-the-royal-canadian-mint-7400002?cat=News+releases&nId=700002&parentnId=600004&nodeGroup=About+the+Mint

http://www.mint.ca/store/dyn/PDFs/RCMP%20letter%20nov%2009.pdf

It's a cover-up.  Royal Canadian Mint Police and RCMP are both federal regulated law enforcement agencies.  Basically, big brother investigated little brother, and found no wrong doing.  Up to the Auditor General of Canada to take a look into this.   Just my opinion.

Told ya I didn't take it....lol

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2009/12/21/mint-missing-gold163.html?ref=rss

The issue is so pathetic and such an embarassment.  The Mint's really finding different methods to say they 'legally' lost the gold.   And for them to suddenly find that this many ounces went down the drain, and this many ounces went out as slag (which they forgot to recover), is such a joke.  This whole thing is a cover up.

I totally agree with you Coinsplus.