Firearms Registry -- Where did the money go?

Note thaat Compaq is mantioned. Hewlett Packard (H-P) bought Compaq. Remember the Champagnes and the DND? Read on.




Canada Firearms: Armed Robbery Mel Duvall, July 1, 2004, Baseline the project management center

But ongoing maintenance, development and support costs rocketed out of control. Between 1996 and 2001, about $688 million was spent on the program. Of that amount, $250 million went to the computer systems. Support, such as call centers, accounted for $300 million. The remaining $138 million went to advertising and public outreach programs to encourage compliance.

By 2001, annual maintenance costs had risen to about $75 million, or 55% of the $135 million in operating costs for that year. This figure is significantly higher than the industry norm of 10% to 20%, according to a review by Strategic Relationships Sourcing. Project managers blamed the system's complexities for that cost. [. . . . ]

RPP 2005-2006 Canada Firearms Centre

Section 3 – Supplementary Information

3.1 Management Representation Statement

We submit for tabling in Parliament, the 2005-2006 Report on Plans and Priorities (RPP) for the Canada Firearms Centre.

[. . . . ]Table 7: Details on Project Spending and Status Report on Major Crown Project

1. Project Description : [. . . . ]

2. Project Phase : [. . . . ]

3. Leading and Participating Departments :

Lead Department : Canada Firearms Centre

Contracting Authority : Public Works and Government Services Canada

Participating Departments :

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Canada Border Services Agency

Department of International Trade Department of Foreign Affairs

4. Prime and Major Sub-contractors :

Prime Contractors :

CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc.
Resolve Corporation (formally BDP Business Data Services Ltd.)

Sub-Contractors :

Bell
NexInnovations
Aliant
Compaq

[. . . . ]

Table 10: Canadian Firearms Program: Federal Government Costs and Anticipated Planned Spending Requirements

Note: The following figures came from the above, but I have inserted the parts in [] and you may assume [. . . . ] after each. This information comes from a table.

Compare: Direct Costs Past Expenditure (1995-1996 to 2003-2004) ($ million) [or $xxx,xxx,xxx ]

Canada Firearms Centre $537.0 million [or $537,000,000]Canada Border Services Agency $17.2 [or $17,200,000]
Royal Canadian Mounted Police $110.4 [or $110,400,000]Human Resources Development Canada $32.7 [or $37,700,000]
Public Works and Government Services Canada $1.5 [or $1,500,000]
Department of Justice $0.8 [or $800,000]
Transfer payments to Provinces $167.2 [or $167,200,000]
Contribution payments to Aboriginal Communities, Other Communities $1.4 [or $1,400,000]

Total Direct Costs: $868.2 [or $868,200,000] [. . . . ]
Total Program Costs $934.4 [or $934,400,000]

Hewlett Packard (H-P) bought Compaq.

Who were involved in this? Note: Paul and Stephanie-Anne Champagne, were involved with the DND computers from Hewlett Packard /HP / H-P. Scroll down. Were they involved with the Firearms Registry? Providing computers?


Couple sued for stealing $107M Andrew McIntosh, National Post, August 11, 2004, on DND computers and a lawsuit against Paul and Stephanie-Anne Champagne

This was excerpted here News Junkie Canada, Aug. 13, 2004. The story came from The Leader-Post (Regina).

OTTAWA -- Computer giant Hewlett-Packard and the federal government have joined forces to sue a former Department of National Defence bureaucrat and his wife, alleging the couple stole at least $107 million in Canadian taxpayers' money using a phoney invoice scheme nobody detected for a decade.

Hewlett-Packard Canada Inc. and the Attorney-General of Canada made the allegation of theft in a lawsuit they have filed against Paul and Stephanie-Anne Champagne, who are now living in an oceanfront mansion in the Turks & Caicos.

In documents filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, H-P Canada and the federal government are suing to recover total losses exceeding $160 million, including the $107 million allegedly pocketed by the Champagnes and deposited into single and jointly controlled Bank of Nova Scotia accounts.

As well, the company and government are seeking $16 million in punitive damages from the couple, millions more to pay for the probe into the scheme and a court order to force the Champagnes to reveal how they spent the $107 million and help auditors trace assets they have bought since the scheme allegedly began in 1994. [. . . . ]

The court documents describe a phoney invoicing scheme allegedly overseen by Paul Champagne that involved military sub-contracts. The documents allege that from his position at National Defence, he approved millions in payments to companies for fictitious sub-contracts from which he secretly profited, cashing hundreds of cheques in the process.