Quite apart from how the news was presented by the CTV or CBC (see below), as a general matter, the Auditor-General correctly points out yet again how governments—even Conservative governments—are utterly incapable of managing the massive amounts of taxpayer cash that they have taken from us. Ostensibly taken because we, to their way of thinking, are too stupid and incapable of spending it wisely ourselves.
Maybe if government focused only on the few core government functions to which they should be limited (which includes national defence and military matters, and doesn’t include approximately 3/4 of the social engineering projects and the meddling in business and the other matters they do focus on), there would be time and resources to manage government finances—you know, like a proper business or family routinely does—without making these massive blunders with people’s hard-earned cash.
The result?
According to [Auditor-General] Fraser, the communication lags cost the military $300 million for the 2007-08 budget year. The shortfalls come as the government struggles to pay for military equipment used in the costly Afghan mission.
Fabulous. But don’t worry, the Defence Minister and part-time kill Fox News crusader Peter MacKay is on it.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay said his department is working to address the report.
“There are issues we have to deal with in terms of accounting,” he told the House of Commons on Tuesday.
Yeah there are “issues” alright. Unlike MacKay’s hysterical Fox News “issue”. And not just “in terms of accounting”. Rather, “in terms of the leadership of that file, hello Mr. MacKay”.
Maybe if Peter MacKay and his cohort Geoff Norquay, the ingenious Conservative “strategist”, weren’t so busy being the great arbiters of oh-so-horrible slights against our military by Fox News Channel by one idiotic midnight comedy show jackass, and getting on national television demanding that Canadians cancel their Fox News Channel subscriptions (Fox News being, ironically, the one and only channel which is reliable pro-military, pro-mission in Afghanistan, to say nothing of being conservative-tolerant), they might have noticed that their own government military departments allegedly screwed our military out of desperately needed cash in a time of actual war.
What should we cancel now, Mr. MacKay?
That being said, CTV.ca seems to welcome a total misread of their headline this afternoon: “DND lost $300M from poor accounting, AG says”, in which they purposely make it sound as though the Conservative government is a bunch of 9-year-old bumble head boys who accidentally dropped a wad of 300 MILL in cash out of their grungy pockets when they were reaching for their marbles or another hunk of gum.
It’s largely bunk. Which is not what hard news headlines should be.
Even the state-owned CBC division of Canada’s liberal-left didn’t try to pretend the gov “lost” $300 million, except to point out — in their more on-point story — that the Defence Department forfeited it by way of their underspending of the year’s allotted budget.
CTV eventually gets to the truth:
In her spring report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, Sheila Fraser said defence officials did not provide information to managers quickly enough, and so the funds were given back to the federal treasury, as federal law requires.
So why did the CTV News editors and news those careful “experts” of information put that out there like they did? Who knows. But it makes them appear politically motivated and untrustworthy. Again. And worse, since they repeat this tactic so often, they don’t even seem to care what affect this has on their own extremely shaky bottom line. They appear, at least on the surface, to care more about how the news affects voters, than on building trust and a loyal audience and a sustainable and profitable news business. They’re making the same mistakes that many U.S. cable news outfits made, causing a massive loss of audience in the past months or more, as at CNN and MSNBC (while Fox News Channel’s audience has grown). This is the same mistake most liberal newspapers have made, rendering many of them bankrupt.
Nobody can count the profits the news media have “lost” due to their poor, biased, untrustworthy product, possibly tainted at every turn with a liberal political agenda.
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