Many Canadians will have heard by now that the federal government is hiring the firm Deloitte and Touche to do a review of its operations and look for ways to save money. The Opposition has expressed outrage at the amount being spent – $19.8 million for seven months of work, which apparently works out to [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/09/26/the-real-problem-with-the-90000-per-diem/
The Auditor General’s latest report contains the usual range of incompetence and ineptitude. That also includes the G8/G20 summit spending – the information leaked to the press during the election campaign. With respect to the summits, there’s a clear problem with accountability. Parliament was lied to and the approval of projects for funding was conducted [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/06/11/whistleblower-comment-on-the-news-june-11-2011/
The Throne Speech has been billed as one that promises accountability reforms, but an examination of it shown that it does very little in that regard. Despite the claim to be pursuing “good, clean government”, the content of the speech shows that there is a basic misunderstanding of the concept of accountability. Accountability refers to [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/06/03/media-update-for-june-3-2011/