You Don't Say

When words fail to express how you feel about astounding idiocy:

One federal department lost nearly two hundred laptops, tablets and USB keys, says an internal audit. Lapses at the Department of Infrastructure included a “lost bag with potential secret documents”, and IT checks so haphazard staff had no real idea how much equipment was misplaced or stolen: “It is difficult to assess.”

I'm shocked.

But not really:

The Department of Public Works went over budget in a failed search for evidence of ancient settlements on Parliament Hill, say Access To Information records. The department would not say how much it spent digging up a Senate parking lot looking for antiquities: “How could this happen.”

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An investment fund aimed at creating jobs for First Nations people in Saskatchewan provided few employment opportunities and lost millions of taxpayers’ dollars.

What could go wrong?:

A report for the Alberta government has raised concerns that a large number of methamphetamine users are frequenting supervised consumption sites that were designed to respond to opioid overdoses.

Front-line health workers say, if anything, that finding should persuade the United Conservative government to bolster services.