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Originally Posted by DJones
Every government ####s up. That's part of being a giant organization. But again, divide that by five years and it's what. 1 percent of annual budget.
It's just not a budget altering number. Again, perfect management won't change anything substantial
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I hope you
never had a negative word to say about the early 2000s Sponsorship Scandal then. If you heard Stephan Harper and other Conservatives (and their supporters) raging about it at the time, you'd think that the federal government was responsible for wasting
multiple billions of dollars of public funds. The reality, according to the findings of the official inquiry, were:
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The inquiry found that $2 million had been awarded in contracts without a proper bidding process, $250,000 had been added to one contract price for no additional work, thereby doubling the value of the contract, and $1.5 million had been awarded for work that was never completed/
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https://carleton.ca/profbrouard/wp-c...1002014002.pdf
To put those figures in perspective, the Sponsorship Scandal -- which was almost solely responsible for bringing down the Chretien/Martin government in the early 2000s -- improperly wasted Canadian taxpayer money over an eight year period equivalent to
a mere 4% of what Danielle Smith's UCP government blew on unusable Tylenol in less than one year. And that's just one of the UCP's many, many misuses of public funds that resulted in little to no benefit for the Alberta citizens they are meant to serve.
But hey, every government ####s up, as you say, so nothing to see here. Go about your business. Move along. Go be a good deplorable and get angry at transgender people instead of paying attention to how the UCP government have been absolutely terrible stewards of Alberta's public finances.