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Families struggling to pay for rent, groceries, etc....
Billions going who knows where, meh whats the big deal?
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I don’t think people are reading the article. They government in this case knows where the money was allocated.
What they did not document effectively was is the money spent accomplishing the goals of that money. That’s a problem but not the problem identified by the headline or the comments going on around it.
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Global Affairs Canada has no sense of whether development aid meant to help women and girls abroad is actually advancing gender equity, according to an audit tabled in Parliament on Monday morning
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The department missed an opportunity to demonstrate the value of international assistance.”
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These difficulties with measuring outcomes applied for 24 out of 26 of the department’s stated policy indicators, in part due to poor data collection, Hogan found.
“While individual project files included useful information, because of the weaknesses in information management practices, this information was not being rolled up and used at the departmental level,” the audit says.
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So the question that can’t be answered is how effective was the money spent at accomplishing its goals. This backwards looking evaluation of projects is a problem in both the public and private sector.
The UCP had a similar audit report that people freaked out about. On the list of misuse of government funds this one is pretty low.