Government goofs!
I know that we want to castigate government severely for anything they do because it is usually perceived as incompetent. But two examples hit the ether this morning, three if you count the secret papers left behind by Lisa Raitt for reporters to read, one was a federal story and one was a Provincial story thus putting the lie to the theory, at the moment that the Libs know how to do the job!
Number one - the Feds have lost some gold and silver at the Royal Mint. Here's the story.
Number two - the Provs have been accused of all sorts of nasty things including mismanagement and insider deals as the honchos of E-Health have pocketed huge wages and still claim for cups of tea on their expenses. A comment by Christina Blizzard here. The sad thing about this E-Health fiasco is that it was setup to take the place of an earlier Agency that spent over 600 million and failed to connect the provinces computers to deliver E-Health.
Yet another tale of Wall St ripoffs here is a detailed story of how Wisconsin School Boards lost a pile of dough by falling for Wall St's slick salesmen. It even makes a Canadian Bank look bad.
Number one - the Feds have lost some gold and silver at the Royal Mint. Here's the story.
Number two - the Provs have been accused of all sorts of nasty things including mismanagement and insider deals as the honchos of E-Health have pocketed huge wages and still claim for cups of tea on their expenses. A comment by Christina Blizzard here. The sad thing about this E-Health fiasco is that it was setup to take the place of an earlier Agency that spent over 600 million and failed to connect the provinces computers to deliver E-Health.
Yet another tale of Wall St ripoffs here is a detailed story of how Wisconsin School Boards lost a pile of dough by falling for Wall St's slick salesmen. It even makes a Canadian Bank look bad.
3 comments:
The goals of eHealth are important for all of us. Even so, we need to be vigilant in pursuing inappropriate or fraudulant use of funds to achieve those goals.
Consider, however, that the federal government is touting increases in military spending, from a current $19 billion to a planned $30 billion in 2027, as good for the country's economic health. Read this.
If ever there were two words that don't belong together, they are military and health. This issue, too, is worth discussing. When will either Sun Media, in general, or Christina Blizzard, in particular, raise it?
I'm doubtful of the benefits to the current recession that might be had by an increase in military spending, however, I do feel a necessity for Canada to have a respectably robust and nimble military.
E-Health spending: The connection that the media has missed is to a company now named Accenture, who secured at least one very large contract from E-Health, and most likely many more. Charging for shop talk on the subway sounds alot like some of their old staff made it to E-Health too.
Readers may recall their old name better: Arthur Anderson Consulting. Yes, that's the same bunch of crooks, based in Amerika, who scammed taxpayers out of millions computering the welfare system under the Harris regime.
They were famous in 1998 for paying their consultants $575 an hour for work usually done by Ontario Public Service employees for about $37 per hour.
Anyone who works with the welfare system can tell you what a mess those computers are to this day. The only thing the Anderson system does well is cut people off automatically. In that regard they followed their tory masters well.
Funny, the Liberals sure as hell knew they were fraudsters back then, they shouted it to the roof tops. Did they forget?
This is the kind of business as usual that leaves this taxpayer screaming. We have children going hungry in this province but have no problem spending funds like this. It goes beyond incompentence, well beyond.
Deb O'Connor
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