The question needs to be asked: Was the last Liberal government—that which was led by Team Martin/ Chretien/ CBC/ Hargrove/ Julie Van Dusen/ and others —the worst government in the history of Canada?
I think the answer, which is “yes”, should be appended to the Wikipedia entry for “Canada” and cross-posted to the “Liberal Party” entry as well.
They were clearly the worst managers, the worst administrators, the most corrupt, the most adept at weakening (to the point of nearly wrecking) Canada’s once great military strength, the most adept at steering Canada left of “moral” and “ethical”, the most adept at breaking Canada free of its pioneering spirit, its citizens’ sense of personal responsibility, its productivity, its place in world affairs, and much more.
There’s no media analysis of this readily available. I think it’s because the mainstream media was part of the team, and it was some of the worst reporting in history as well.
For instance, why is it that when the mainstream media does a story about the Conservatives, or anything that any conservative Canadian says, they feel the urgent need to get verification and commentary from three to five leftist or even Marxist university professors or other liberals, yet when it’s about liberals or the Liberals’ disastrous government, they leave every conservative alone?
Look at this article as just one example. Where’s the Conservative viewpoint about the Liberals’ hellacious government practices? Was the Canadian Taxpayer Federation and the Fraser Institute and the National Citizens Coalition closed this week? Was the Conservative Party on vacation? Not even one to be found in all of Canada for even one comment! Amazing!
Irregularities persisted at Industry Canada after “cleanup’
Audit shows department staff broke new rules for contractingA newly released audit suggests a government-wide cleanup of contracting practices, prompted by the sponsorship scandal, had little impact on the front lines.
The internal audit of Industry Canada’s communications and marketing branch found evidence of improper payments, illegal contract-splitting, unjustified sole-sourcing and other problems.
Investigators reviewed 40 contracts that had been signed over an 18-month period, starting in April 2003.
Weeks later, in May 2003, Auditor General Sheila Fraser delivered her first scathing report on the sponsorship scandal, saying senior bureaucrats “broke just about every rule in the book” in managing advertising and marketing deals. Fraser’s damning report, which ignited a political firestorm over the next two years, dealt primarily with Public Works.
Later that same month, on May 23, then-prime minister Jean Chretien announced a series of tough measures to clean up procurement and contracting across government.
But the message apparently got garbled at Industry Canada, where auditors found a raft of irregularities that took place over the next year and a half.
“Fourteen of the contracts reviewed did not include any justification on file for the use of sole sourcing,” says the audit, obtained under the Access to Information Act.
“Six of the contracts had payments that were not in accordance with policies and guidelines. . . . Two other contracts contained vendor invoices with no description of the work performed as required by the contract.”
The report also found suspicious contracts to the same supplier, where invoice totals may have been manipulated to keep each below a threshold of $25,000, above which departments are required to seek competing bids. “Two of the contracts showed evidence of contract splitting,” says the document.
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