Apparently, it grows on trees or can be obtained through outrageous taxes:
The Liberal government’s $188-billion infrastructure spending plans continue to lag behind schedule, with government departments failing to provide adequate public reporting on the sprawling program, a new report says.
Auditor General Karen Hogan on Thursday released one of the most thorough reports to date on the progress of the Investing in Canada Plan, which found that “funds were not being spent as quickly as planned,” and that “objectives might not be met” after the full 12-year life of the program.
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Taxpayers will see no refunds on more than $700 million worth of pandemic ventilators the Department of Public Works bought from sole-sourced contractors but didn’t need. “I do have the Canadian taxpayers’ interests at heart when I am doing my job,” Minister Anita Anand said yesterday. “I am very, very concerned with that issue myself.”
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Health Minister Patricia Hajdu’s department is paying people to say nice things about it on Twitter and Facebook. The department yesterday said it will pay minor celebrities to tout its work “as a trusted source of health information” on social media after being faulted for pandemic mismanagement: “We are continuously adapting and learning.”
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The Department of Employment yesterday for the first time admitted it paid millions in fraudulent claims for pandemic relief cheques. It followed a preliminary audit that found 30,000 suspected cases of fraud worth $42 million: “So many Canadians are making sacrifices.”**
Payments to the Asian Infrastructure Bank are continuing, with the Trudeau government having recently given $40 million USD to the China-controlled bank.
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