Weston: Indian Affairs & fed beancounters -&- Fisher on Svend

"Use it and lose it. Say it and shred it." Greg Weston, Oct. 13, 05

On any given day, a small army of federal beancounters is all that stands between the public purse and one of the most infamous fiscal sinkholes in all of government, the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.

Turns out this is not particularly good news for Canadian taxpayers.

A recent audit of the auditors who watch over the department's $6-billion annual budget discovered the entire beancounting bureaucracy totals one big dysfunctional mess. [. . . . ]

Search: "Summary conclusions from interviews" (with disgruntled auditors)

Someone didn't use the shredder.



Doug Fisher: Svend Robinson Oct. 9, 05

[. . . . ] Should any of us, in or out of politics, be judging his possible candidacy in light of his theft? Or, has he suffered enough . . . .

[. . . . ] Svend has a legacy on the Hill itself which he needs to bury before that can happen.

Let me go back to Svend's years as an MP, from 1979 to 2004 and assess how he stood in the seven NDP caucuses during that stretch. [. . . . ]

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