Your Corrupt and Incompetent Government and You

They should be restricted from ever having access to public money:

It is irresponsible for MPs to suggest cabinet is “cooking the books,” Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said yesterday. Opposition critics ridiculed Champagne’s announcement that the traditional spring budget and Fall Economic Statement will be replaced with a fall budget and Spring Economic Statement: “Are you guys going to be cooking the books?”

 

Oh, really?: 

Ottawa noted in a backgrounder explaining the change that the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates have previously called for “greater alignment between the budget and Main Estimates.”

The French government tables its budget bill in October, while the Italian government approves its budget in October with a parliamentary vote of approval to take place by year-end. The Japanese government tables a draft budget in December, which has to be voted on before the start of the new fiscal year on April 1.

Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Jason Jacques has said this approach is akin to having the foot on the gas and brake at the same time. The PBO has projected a deficit of $68.5 million for the next fiscal year, along with an increasing debt-to-GDP ratio. Jacques told MPs in late September Canada is on an “unsustainable” fiscal track.

 

 

"Missing", you say?:

A long-promised investigation of contracting at Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty’s department has confirmed widespread irregularities. Verification was “missing” for two-thirds of audited suppliers who claimed Indigenous ownership in seeking preferential contracts: “Sixty-eight percent of cases had missing or incomplete verification.” 

 

 

No one asked me, or anyone else for that matter:

Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne yesterday said he was never consulted on a telecom bill that would allow cabinet to secretly cancel Canadians’ internet accounts. Opponents have expressed alarm over the proposal: “We need to make sure by protecting national security we are not doing so at the expense of privacy.”