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Pan-Am games, rot and more rot

By lance on October 7, 2013 1:30 PM | 4 Comments

As Tory MPP Rod Jackson, the party's Pam Am critic, told the Sun: "If they didn't know this stuff was going on in 2012, they should have and if they did, they failed to act on it."

The larger concern, as Jackson noted, is that if the government wasn't paying attention to expense claim problems at the Pan Am committee, then what about its oversight of the "big stuff" -- its overall management of the $1.4 billion publicly-funded games?

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Davers6 | October 7, 2013 3:30 PM | Reply

Human nature is such that nobody anywhere pays much oversight to the spending of OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY ... and that's magnified 100 fold when it's socialists who are supposed to be the ones "paying attention". It's like putting Count Dracula in charge of 'monitoring' the blood bank. The wretched excess of government spending follies have reached epidemic proportion in the past 5+ years in all western democracies, a situation that will not end well.

johnbrooks | October 7, 2013 6:21 PM | Reply

But Toronto will bring the subway out to the Airport for the 2016 or 17 Pan Am games.

Frances | October 7, 2013 11:40 PM | Reply

Am getting tired of this abuse from 'non-profits'. Take the CRA bulldogs off the small businesses and sic them on to the 'non-profits'; and make said operations subject to the same restrictions same business has had for yoinks.

bluetech | October 8, 2013 8:29 PM | Reply

Related;

CBC is stressing/madly reporting a $65,000 expense of Mike Duffy, and ignoring the gas plant closure expenses ($1.1 billion according to todays AG report)

Note the timeline: October 7
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/wynne-to-respond-to-oakville-gas-plant-report-tuesday-1.1929110

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