Saturday, March 20, 2004
Federal Sponsorship Scandal
Normally I don’t like to talk politics, but I get this feeling that a lot of you that stop by my site are from outside Canada. So I thought maybe some might be interested in hearing about our “Wonderful Liberal government”. Not!!! Very recently the Prime Minister of Canada (“Our President”) who at the time was John Chrétien stepped down and appointed his Financial Minister Paul Martin to the seat. Well if you know politics let the scandal games beginning * smiles *
The Federal Sponsorship Scandal: Anyone heard of this???
On Feb. 10, 2004, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser released the hotly anticipated results of her audit of the controversial government advertising and sponsorship program run by the federal Public Works Department. Basically federal tax dollars that were collected from the taxpayers of Canada were allocated out to crown corporations, (companies run solely by the government) and to advertisement companies who apparently supported the current majority government, i.e. The Liberals. Taxpayers of Canada were outraged at the findings, the collection of tax dollars should have been spent in order to help aid Canadians and help support our social programs…
Here are some of the major findings reported by Auditor General Sheila Fraser:
Senior government officials running the federal government's advertising and sponsorship contracts in Quebec, as well as five Crown corporations – the RCMP, Via Rail, Canada Post, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the Old Port of Montreal – wasted money and showed disregard for rules, mishandling millions of dollars since 1995.
More than $100 million was paid to various communications agencies in the form of fees and commissions, Fraser found. In most cases the agencies did little more than hand over the cheques.
The sponsorship program was designed to generate commissions for private companies, while hiding the source of the funding, rather than providing any benefit for Canadians, Fraser said.
"I think this is such a blatant misuse of public funds that it is shocking. I am actually appalled by what we've found."
"I am deeply disturbed that such practices were allowed to happen in the first place. I don't think anybody can take this lightly."
As a taxpayer I vote that no one should have to pay taxes ever again… * smiles*
So does this make you wonder……
Normally I don’t like to talk politics, but I get this feeling that a lot of you that stop by my site are from outside Canada. So I thought maybe some might be interested in hearing about our “Wonderful Liberal government”. Not!!! Very recently the Prime Minister of Canada (“Our President”) who at the time was John Chrétien stepped down and appointed his Financial Minister Paul Martin to the seat. Well if you know politics let the scandal games beginning * smiles *
The Federal Sponsorship Scandal: Anyone heard of this???
On Feb. 10, 2004, federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser released the hotly anticipated results of her audit of the controversial government advertising and sponsorship program run by the federal Public Works Department. Basically federal tax dollars that were collected from the taxpayers of Canada were allocated out to crown corporations, (companies run solely by the government) and to advertisement companies who apparently supported the current majority government, i.e. The Liberals. Taxpayers of Canada were outraged at the findings, the collection of tax dollars should have been spent in order to help aid Canadians and help support our social programs…
Here are some of the major findings reported by Auditor General Sheila Fraser:
Senior government officials running the federal government's advertising and sponsorship contracts in Quebec, as well as five Crown corporations – the RCMP, Via Rail, Canada Post, the Business Development Bank of Canada and the Old Port of Montreal – wasted money and showed disregard for rules, mishandling millions of dollars since 1995.
More than $100 million was paid to various communications agencies in the form of fees and commissions, Fraser found. In most cases the agencies did little more than hand over the cheques.
The sponsorship program was designed to generate commissions for private companies, while hiding the source of the funding, rather than providing any benefit for Canadians, Fraser said.
"I think this is such a blatant misuse of public funds that it is shocking. I am actually appalled by what we've found."
"I am deeply disturbed that such practices were allowed to happen in the first place. I don't think anybody can take this lightly."
As a taxpayer I vote that no one should have to pay taxes ever again… * smiles*
So does this make you wonder……
