Public Works Audit Uncovers Shoddy Management Practices

Posted on Monday, July 26 at 13:00 by whelan costen
The Public Works review, covering three years of advertising contracts from 2000 to 2003, had been expected to find significant improvements over the previous three years because of changes in the way contracts were managed. The government revamped some advertising procedures in 2001 after persistent problems with the files. But the new review, completed last November, found almost no improvements. Investigators could not even locate about five per cent of the files chosen for examination. http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=news_home&articleID=1671930

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  1. Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:44 am
    More bureaucracy out of control. I can see the PC cure will be more privatization and the NDP cure will be less privatization. Why can they not focus on fixing up the bureaucracy? Because it will take more bureaucracy? Or more effective governance...

    On a more positive note, it was refreshing to see that the new Minister wanted his all-hands meeting "tomorrow" rather than months down the road. I think that these people need to start turning things around at the pace at which us mortals do.

  2. Tue Jul 27, 2004 3:14 pm
    I am no fan of Paul Martin, but let's never forget who was calling the shots all the way through this scandal.

    Cretin was the boss, and when Sheila Fraser was ready to lay out her findings, Cretin dissolved Parliament.

    The teflon PM !!

    He took no flak for doing so, but it was so transparent it just makes you laugh out loud.

    To this date he has not been called to tell his side, but if and when the inquiry gets under way, I hope they drag him through the dirt.

    I don't think this country has had such a dictator in recent memory.

    Looks good on him, as he sits at home sipping on his $1000 wine, and smoking pot. He said he might do that when he retired, EH ??


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    "Arrogance in Politics is unacceptable"
    Jim Callaghan
    Minden, Ontario
    705-286-1860
    www.misterc.ca

  3. Tue Jul 27, 2004 6:37 pm
    Criminal charges should be laid where our money is 'missing', hopefully that would uncover where it went and who sent it there. The recievers of the cash need to be sued, including court costs. They know they don't have a legitimate claim to the taxpayers dollars, because they haven't done any work - ignorance is no excuse before the law, they know they're being bought. Unfortunately, the Liberals will obfuscate and call the problem 'systemic' in order to divert blame from the individuals involved, those people who took the money will then be shifted around into other positions of trust where they'll have access to our paycheques once again.



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