Dr. Stephen Duckett was the Australia-born economist and health services manager who was the President and CEO of Alberta Health Services, a quasi-independent agency of the government to run their healthcare system.

After a high-level meeting, he avoided talking to the media, excusing himself to slowly eat a cookie. The video went viral in Canada, on the station's YouTube channel, and on other news programs.

Among the quotes: "I'm eating my cookie -- can't you see I'm eating my cookie!"

He was later fired by the agency. This created a backlash amongst board members, with two resigning, and more threatening to do so.^[1]

The media and public dubbed him "Cookie Monster". The term was used as broadly as Australia's The Age, RTL in the Netherlands.

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Megan Levy, "Backlash over 'Cookie Monster' sacking", The Age, November 26, 2010.

External linksEdit

• Pre-resignation apology
• "Dr. Stephen Duckett...lending new meaning to the term Cookie Monster?", Edmonton Journal blog.
• YouTube mashup, mixed to "C is for Cookie".