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arikara

(5,562 posts)
Fri Apr 3, 2015, 11:15 PM Apr 2015

Where the heck’s that $3.1-billion? Where’s the fury?

So is that it? There is $3.1-billion in government money unaccounted for, as Auditor-General Michael Ferguson reported some time ago. It just kind of flew off into the netherworld. And it seems most everyone has forgotten. As in, too bad taxpayer, nothing can be done.

You have to wonder, has there ever been so large a federal sum dematerialize like this? Will there be no inquiry? Will not one head roll – not a public servant’s, not a politician’s?

The money was initially targeted for public security and anti-terrorism funding. There was $12.9-billion allocated. Only $9.8-billion has been accounted for. Mr. Ferguson asked the Treasury Board, which is supposed to track spending scrupulously, to explain the gap, to come up with some answers. It didn’t have any. It still doesn’t.

The Conservatives, who tout themselves as first-rate managers of the public purse, seem just to have brushed it off. They hoped, maybe in their wildest dreams, that the story would go away in a few days after the A-G’s revelation back in April. And that’s what happened.

“Amazing. The scale of this is unbelievable,” says former parliamentary budget officer Kevin Page, who always can be relied upon to hold the Conservatives’ feet to the fire. “Can you imagine, in a private-sector world, where $3-billion went missing and they went back to shareholders and said, ‘Ah, sorry, folks, but we don’t know where it is’?”

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/where-the-hecks-that-31-billion-wheres-the-fury/article15503778/

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Where the heck’s that $3.1-billion? Where’s the fury? (Original Post) arikara Apr 2015 OP
We should check the pockets... CanSocDem Apr 2015 #1
Contact the leaders of each Federal party shockedcanadian Apr 2015 #2
The date on this story is November 2013 RedSock Apr 2015 #3
I don't know arikara Apr 2015 #4
True Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2015 #6
It probably went to war. delrem Apr 2015 #5
 

CanSocDem

(3,286 posts)
1. We should check the pockets...
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 08:13 AM
Apr 2015


...of the dozen or so MP's who are NOT running for re-election. Our experience out here in the heartland is that the temptation to 'steal' public money is too great for free-market conservatives.


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shockedcanadian

(751 posts)
2. Contact the leaders of each Federal party
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 09:52 AM
Apr 2015

Ask them to make it a election issue Contact the CBC and ask them to make it an issue.

Theft seems to be a little too rampant in all levels of politics these days.

RedSock

(2,702 posts)
3. The date on this story is November 2013
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 12:04 PM
Apr 2015

The date on this story is November 2013 ... Has there been any follow-up?

arikara

(5,562 posts)
4. I don't know
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 03:36 PM
Apr 2015

I didn't even notice the date but it would be interesting to see if there was any followup. It could still well be an election issue.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
6. True
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 10:36 PM
Apr 2015

But an explanation has still not been provided. So it is still timely in that theft, fraud, mismanagement, unaccountability or corruption could be at play. Mulcair hammered this point like crazy for a few months, but then the Trudeau coronation took over, and media moved on. I sincerely hope that that it comes back in the debates, and perhaps even as a threatened pledge for investigation.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
5. It probably went to war.
Mon Apr 6, 2015, 01:28 AM
Apr 2015

Look at the USA, Harper's wannabelostcousin of a place, at how many $Bs of war money they "lost". I mean right off the boats, in pallets worth of cash, "lost".

You better not laugh, because yes, they are doing it and getting away with it.

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