A quote from the latest in a series of posts on Liberal MP David Smith at Angry At The GWN;
So David Smith maintains his links with Jaguar and ASM, which are closely linked to each other.
They both seem to make a good living off of federal contracts, especially those intersecting aboriginal concerns and territories.
Then he splits off to work out of his home for Abotech, a company with no apparent employees or facilities, landing hundreds of thousands in government public works contracts dedicated to aboriginal companies.
Here’s my theory. Abotech is a front for non-aboriginal companies like Jaguar. The government hires “aboriginal” company Abotech to do the work and thus meets its own goal for supporting aboriginal companies. But Abotech is a shell, and after David Smith takes his cut, he passes the work off to Jaguar or to ASM, which are legit, though non- aboriginal, computer firms.
Neither Jaguar nor ASM are listed in the Aboriginal Business Directory, though Abotech is.
It works because David Smith is a status aboriginal
Go read the whole thing.
Which goes a long way to proving my point that Reserves are a microcosm of our own governance under the Liberals–follow the money–it ends up in Liberal coffers same as our money going to Reserves ends up in the more equal pockets in Native society. Corruption rules in whatever the Liberals touch.
Worrisome Librano Stealth
=== Bruce Cheadle story = Canadian Press ===
== Liberals announce post -Scandal Audit Rules ==
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Liberal cabinet ministers are claiming their new reforms mark a fundamental shift in Canadian governance.
Opposition MPs are crying foul.
Ottawa will spend $40 million annually and hire up to 300 new auditors as it overhauls the way federal departments internally monitor their own programs, Treasury Board President Reg Alcock told a news conference.
Some 158 separate measures, with another 80 promised in coming days, “will be some of the most fundamental changes in the internal oversight that any government in the world has made,” Alcock claimed.
“Prime Minister (Paul) Martin has set the bar very high for all of us.”
The hyperbole and timing of the announcement, if not its substance, had Liberal opponents gagging.
“It’s totally designed to pre-empt Gomery,” said NDP veteran Ed Broadbent.
===== Oct 22/05 Canadian Press on Canada.com ====
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I hope Ed Broadbent is wrong this time.
Gomery will be putting a report of great interest on display in 10 days.
Broadbent seems to suggest the curtains my be pulled so we may be denied
A chance to read Gomery’s report. Hope not TG
The taxpayer of Canada cannot win–Liberals have robbed us blind over the last 12 years, now we pay $40M for them to hire accountants to ‘internally monitor’ how the Liberals do governance’. Are we to believe that those in charge for the last 12 years have no idea how to conduct business honestly? That they have no ethics or morals when it comes to stealing from the taxpayer, that it is only civil servants who are at fault, that the Ministers are totally unaware of the theft that has been going on under their very noses? I would suggest that watching the antics of Dingwall in and out of the Cabinet that it is not the civil servants–they had to be trained and bullied by the Cabinet to allow the theft in the first place.
I love the term ‘fundamental’–as if the Libs have only just dicovered honesty and they ‘will work very hard, consult stakeholders and experts’–in the end we will be at least $100M poorer(when has a Liberal estimate ever been accurate) and those in charge will only have learned how to cover up their theft better.
I fear Broadbent is right. We will only see what the Liberals want us to see–I hope Gomery fights to show us what he really wrote. So much depends on Gomery’s integrity and desire to see Canada and Canadians protected from this massive crime.
I agree with George. We need less auditors. I definately think we would have known about sponsorship much sooner if not for Sheila Fraser and her auditors. They’re definately a big waste of money. Less auditors! More accountability!
Hey Lowend. I think the point is we should not need so many auditors to ensure that our government is not a bunch of thieves. And as the Liberals will set up the audits themselves, the auditors will be Liberal appointees subject to gag legislation the Liberals are introducing, then we’ll just have another 100 million going down the tubes. I think the Romans had this same problem with the Praetorian guard.
Nice bit of typical reactionary Liberal spin Mr. Loewen, Kinsella would be proud.
What a shocker! You think that an aboriginal company would be a front for other companies seeking government work? No way!
Well, actually I know it for fact. In 1999 Sierra Systems Group out of Vancouver bought (well, 49% in order to maintian that aboriginal wonership thing) Donnacona, the largest Aboriginal technology company in Canada. Why do you think they did that? To get better access to Federal contracts (or sub-contracts). Duh.
I admire the job Sheila Fraser did for us on adscam and all the other graft she has uncovered. She is the only honest voice in a sea of corruption.
My point was that we are being charged an exhorbitant amount to hire other accountants to tell the corrupt Liberals how they should be spending our money. If the Liberals are so inept at the job–why are they there in the first place? The hiring of these accountants is probably another scam by the Liberals–only Liberal buddies get hired with a proviso that they will kickback a portion to the LPOC?
If anything we need more people like Ms Fraser–honesty is her strong point–and she is not threatened by the Liberals–she is looking out for Canadians–something that has never happened in the sleazy life of this government.
If the criminals already exposed, ( over and over again) were actually brought to justice, held accountable for their crimes, and the stolen money recovered, it would serve as a warning to anyone in the future who contemplated sticking their hands in the public till. That has not happened yet, and nor is it going to.
“Prime Minister Martin has set the bar very high for all of us”??????!!!!!
For goodness sake, PMPM was either the PM or the Finance Minister (i.e., the Chief Financial Officer of Canada) while all this shit was going on. Now he is going to take credit? The only reason anything is happening is because the rot and corruption has been exposed.
Save Millions in saleries for auditors who we do not really need.
If Whistle-Blower law [with real penalties- C-11], is made law, the extra auditor teams will not be required.
Ordinary workers make the best watch dogs if C-11 is in place to protect them when they report. Without WB bill C-11, it will be same old thing. No one can afford to report wrong doing if they get crushed in doing so.
See if you agree: http://My.Opera.com/T-G/
73s TG
In addition to Whistleblower legislation, the Access to Information Act needs to be revised to ensure that all agencies are subject to it, including the last holdouts:
The House of Commons and its components
The Senate and its components
The Library of Parliament
The Chief Electoral Officer
The Information Commissioner
The Privacy Commissioner
The Commissioner of Official Languages
The Auditor General
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Canada Post Corporation
Canadian National Railways
Atomic Energy of Canada Limited
Navcan
The Canadian Blood Service
The Canadian Wheat Board
The St. Lawrence Seaway Corporation
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
The Export Development Corporation
http://www.infocom.gc.ca/reports/section_display-e.asp?intSectionId=301
Thank you JM, that’s a handy check list… worth printing for checking later. TG
Whether you have more auditors or less auditors, the waste and theft will continue. The very programs themselves whose alleged integrity the auditors are trying to protect are nothing but nasty and dishonest attempts to buy votes. All of these programs are based on the premise that ordinary citizens and their own voluntary, private and local associations are somehow too ineffective to ever manage anything as complicated as a visit to a doctor’s office; planning for retirement; educating one’s children; and so on.
How do you “protect the integrity” of a health care system, the only two major products of which seem to be (a) rich doctors and unionized staff and bureaucracies, and (b) sick and crippled patients sitting at home waiting for an MRI, a radiation treatment, an angioplasty, or whatever. Oh yes, I forgot – you protect the integrity of the system by establishing “scientifically valid” waiting-list baseline measurements, and you use the rest of the money on a propaganda campaign to blame the victims for being too fat.
And are the auditors to protect the taxpayers so that education money is spent on even higher teachers’ and bureaucrats’ salaries, and even more trendy but useless computers and software? So that an even higher proportion of illiterate and innumerate graduates can be turned out into an even bigger wasteland of lost jobs?
So, Dear Canadians, I would have advised you all to roll up the Gomery Report and related Liberal Party policy papers, and stick them in your pipe and smoke them – but I understand that the government is soon going to start using taxpayers’ money to buy people crack cocaine and heroin. So instead, just ignore the judge’s, auditors’ and politicians’ reports, drop out, quit, take a out a second mortgage on your house, max out all your credit cards, and sit back and wait for your government to take care of you in the way that you truly deserve.
“Heart Lake Cats”, from the Heart Lake Reserve, north eastern Alberta works the same way.
There’s not much to the company.It can’t get equipment, parts nor fuel on credit. But they do get to bid on the ABORIGINAL portion of forestry companies contracts. Clearing, roadbuilding etc.
A company “Swamp Cats”, from nearby Lac La Biche does the bidding under their banner, gets the work and hires some of their people. When equipment operators routinely don’t show up, other employees take their places. Sure, some revenue gets back to the reserve leaders, who basicaly stoke their woodstoves, taking it easy.
But for political reasons, the work still flows through this arrangement, guilt mony I guess. It’s understood in most larger companies operating in the region, that special make work arrangements allow the Aboriginal worker to “fully participate and prosper from the land fairly”, albeit with kid gloves.
Is this good? For them I mean?
National Gum Gegistry – Canada.
Exhibit # 3,226,789 :Ding’s Gum $1.29 CDN. & Dingwall, aka The Poster Boy of Librano$ Corruption Inc.
Greg Weston
Sun, October 23, 2005
Ethical storm may blow Grits away
By GREG WESTON
In the political backrooms of the nation’s capital, it is known simply as the Dingwall factor, and it is driving strategists of all stripes to imagine Canadian voters may yet be going to the polls this fall.
Across the country, pollsters are reporting Canadians of every demographic are livid over the David Dingwall affair.
No wonder. Controversy surrounding Dingwall’s living high off his expense accounts as head of the Royal Canadian Mint has now escalated into a national furor over the possibility of the former Liberal cabinet minister getting up to $500,000 severance for quitting his patronage job.
Called to explain himself before a parliamentary committee last week, Dingwall cleverly inflamed public anger even more, appearing as the poster boy for Liberal arrogance.
High alert
But what has political weather-watchers on high alert is the gathering public storm over Dingwall converging with the hurricane-force report of Justice John Gomery’s inquiry into the sponsorship scandal, due to be released Nov. 1. >>>
http://www.rapp.org/url/?6UCVTIUZ
The entire system appears to be shot through with the rot of corruption, but we are to believe that a group of purehearted accountants of unsullied and untouchable integrity will be found who will not succumb to the disease and simply become another layer of whitewash and misdirection to conceal the lies.
Layer upon layer of whitewash and little mention of bonuses. Large, rich satisfying bonuses that have a tendency to buy loyalty to the Librano Party who hands them out.
Add that to the fact that if you are honest and stick your neck out to mention that, *Pssst, hey, there are two guys packing bags of money into a van at our back door*, and you get sacked, losing your job and the bonuses for your trouble, it’s no wonder they can get away with so much.
About twelve years ago, Allan Cutler did that and yes, he was shifted sideways, then sacked because Whistle-Blower Protection law was without any [teeth] at the time.
Proper WB law, [Bill C-11] would have saved us billions, not just millions.
The Auditor General was aware of Cutler’s declarations, yet it was 12 years before Sheila Fraser said anything.
And you think Fraser is our one hero in Ottawa? Remeber those bonuses. Do they buy performance or silence?
Sheila had no choice but to announce Sponsorship problems. It was leaking out all over Ottawa anyway. It was more a question of timing. Announce Adscam and look like you are protecting the taxpaer’s interest.
What a capital Ottawa city inside joke that was. These people are manipulative foxes in the hen house. That is to say, many liberal bosses are extremely intelligent.
Dingwall is a perfect example. With rattlesnake coolness he overturns arguments about his excessive expense account spending. I
t looks as though he will not only get the half million sverence he does not deserve, but the doors are open for him to launch a multi-million lawsuit against us, because he was challenged in an half-cocked manner.
It will require careful preparation to dislodge these Libranos, They are a worthy enemy because some are VERY smart. TG
This makes speechless with surprise. Never knew that.
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