The article below was first published in Ottawa’s Hill Times on December 5, 2011 It has become a sad truism that Canadians’ faith and trust in our federal government has been consistently declining. This is hardly news. Over the past decade, federal government studies from the likes of Public Works and Government Services in 2001 [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/12/13/it%e2%80%99s-time-ottawa-fix-its-broken-trust-with-canadians/
“When Roméo Dallaire advocates for improvement in the way we treat our injured soldiers, does his psychiatric file, and the distortions thereof, end up on the minister’s desk? When the auditor general has something to say about the minister of finance, does her tax return show up on the minister’s desk?” The very relevant and [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/09/27/media-update-for-september-27-2010/
In today’s news, it was revealed that the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating several Ontario bureaucrats – no politicians involved in this one, much to the provincial Liberals’ relief. It seems that they were accepting kickbacks for contracts they awarded. Anyone who thinks this practice is isolated is probably naïve: the heavy dependence on de [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2010/08/09/media-update-for-august-9-2010/