Your Wasteful and Corrupt Government and You

It's time to take the government's mistakes out of MPs' pensions:

The federal Phoenix Pay System failure has now cost taxpayers $3.7 billion and counting, the highest figure disclosed to date. The latest damages are cited in a Department of Public Works briefing note: “It gives us all kinds of lessons about how to build a better public service.”

 

No, it shines a light on smaller IT companies that can do this job for much less. 

Also:

There are “going to be some issues” with a federal IT project to digitize border collections of Customs duties, says a federal memo. Cost of the program under development since 2016 is more than $556 million: “There are no doubt going to be some issues.”

Yet another debacle:

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc’s department is refusing comment over its hiring of forensic auditors to assess risk of a “national compensation program.” Staff would not confirm they anticipated millions in fraud and waste through a costly gun buyback scheme scheduled in 2025: “Help.”

 

 

Justin's dad wouldn't have had to pull some strings to keep his son out of jail for drugs charges if we just legalised the stuff!:

Cabinet was willing to “use all tools at our disposal” under its drug policy including “national decriminalization,” says a federal document. The memo to Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks is dated just five weeks before British Columbia abruptly ended its experiment with decriminalized drug use on complaints of public disorder: ‘Tools include approaches to decriminalization.’

 

What can go right with that? 

The time to do this was when Justin was blackmailing everyone into refusing funding.

The lesson is to never rely on the government for anything:

A performance audit of the Canada Summer Jobs program is underway with investigators’ findings due by year’s end, says a federal memo. It is the first audit since program managers were accused of withholding hire-a-student subsidies from employers who did not subscribe to cabinet’s political views: ‘Follow-up focuses on religious beliefs.’

The Liberals are not going to do anything about the gushing torrents of migrants and so-called students coming into the country.

Not now, not ever:

Even as federal Liberal government is pledging to cap the number of international study permits, its own data show Canada is approving permits at a pace faster than last year, which saw a record number of approvals.

According to numbers curated online by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Canada handed out 216,620 international study permits in the first five months of 2024.

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Just 200,205 study permits were handed out during the same time period in 2023.

By the end of 2023, 682,420 study permits had been granted to foreign students.

Canada has been granting the vast majority of permits to India, with 278,335 going to students from that country in 2023, a number nearly five times more than to students from China, the second-highest country of origin, who were granted 58,230 permits in 2023.

Canada’s third-most popular source of international students in 2023 was Nigeria, with 37,575 permits handed out in 2023, followed by the Philippines with 33,830, and Nepal at 15,920.

During the first five months of 2024, Indian students were granted 91,510 permits, more than the 85,805 granted over the same period last year.

Chinese students received 21,240 permits in the first five months of this year, compared to 15,565 granted between January and May 2023.

Nigerians received 12,450 study permits by May 2024, up from 8,150 by May 2023.

For the Philippines, 10,140 permits were granted so far in 2024, up from 9,300 over the same period of time last year.

Applicants from Nepal received 4,655 study permits so far this year, compared to 3,575 between last January and May.

In January, Immigration Marc Miller announced he was putting an intake cap on international student permit applications that he expected to result in approximately 360,000 approved study permits, a decrease of 35 per cent from 2023. 

The federal government has been under pressure over rising numbers of temporary residents amid a housing shortage and ongoing affordability crisis. In 2023, Canada let in a record 800,000 additional non-permanent residents, such as temporary workers and foreign students, bringing to 2.6 million the number of non-permanent residents in the country as of Jan. 1, 2024, Statistics Canada reported. 

 

Where are the Liberals going to put them?