Seriously, a whole lot of gouging must be going on.

I recall my father taking over the Nipawin Hydro-electric project which was 2 years behind schedule and over budget.

The first act was to fire them all and bring in some people who know what they are doing.

Result, a number of incompetents get shown the door and the Nipawin Hydroelectric dam came in about 12 months ahead of schedule and underbudget.

In the words of Ezra Levant: FIRE THEM ALL!

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

Whose project is this Federal or Provincial?

Let me guess, no one wants to put their name to it....

@ eastern paul

Funding for the capital costs of the CMHR is coming from three jurisdictions of government — the federal Crown, the provincial Crown, and the City of Winnipeg — as well as private donations. The total budget for the building of the exterior of the CMHR and its contents was initially $310 million as of February 2011.

To date, the Government of Canada has allocated $100 million, the Government of Manitoba has donated $40 million, and the City of Winnipeg has donated $20 million.[10] The Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, led by Gail Asper, have succeeded in raising $125 million in private donations from across Canada so far.[11] An additional $25 million is still needed to reach the fundraising goal. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has requested an additional $35 million in Capital funding from the federal government to cover shortfalls. In April 2011 the CMHR also received an additional $3.6 million from the City of Winnipeg, which was actually taken from a federal grant to the city in lieu of taxes for the museum.[12]

Once the CMHR is open, the operating budget will be provided by the government of Canada, as the CMHR is a national museum. The estimated operating costs to the federal government are $22 million annually. In December 2011, the CMHR announced that due to rising costs for the interior exhibits of the museum, the budget was now increased by $41 million dollars to a total of $351 million.

this was cut/paste fro wikipedia

I wonder if by this human right museum farce running badly and near crashing, the fates are trying to tell us something? Maybe the whole dog and pony show is not about human rights but a monument to misplaced lib-left sentimentality?

Imean "human rights" began at Runnymede where the magna Carta instituted limited government, rights of commoners and rule of law. Over the next 900 years many shed blood to keep these freedoms in the face of tyranny. Their sacrifice is our heritage of freedom - I see this ideal is nowhere expressed in this museum farce.

I don't doubt that the situation at CMHR is due to bureaucratic interference. The contractor,PCL, is one I've worked with on several big projects,last one a $400 million resort complex built in a much more difficult location than the Museum,and they brought it in OT/OB.

The managers and staff were first rate,great co-ordination,excellent safety program,the project an all-around pleasure to work on.

But I have also worked on projects where the owners are constantly making changes while the project is ongoing,and that alone can delay any project significantly.

@ Occam:

“No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, nor will we proceed with force against him, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land. To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right of justice."

This is the single most important clause of the Magna Carta or, as it is also known, the Great Charter of Liberty.

When it was issued in 1215, it was agreed upon by King John and his barons at Runnymede near Windsor. Today, nearly 800 years later, the document is considered the foundation of modern democracy.

During Her last visit Queen Elizabeth II selected a stone from the fields of Runnymede to be a component of the cornerstone of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights set to open at the Forks in 2012.

I think Her Majesty QEII 'gets it' the people running the project not so much, they are embarassing themselves. Maybe its a 'calculated insult'...

Cheers

Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”

@ dmorris:

You may have a point here as we are talking 3 THREE layers of 'pointy heads' to satisfy on the federal, provincial and municipal level.

So you get a museum to 'limited government' beset by 'unlimited cost' overruns. Pretty good piece of irony...

"They took all the cash, put it in a Rights Museum".

Hey, Solyndra has a bunch of project managers that are now free. They have experience at suckling the taxpayer's teat too.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ottawa , wish these people would try to remember that there is still only one taxpayer. If this white elephant can't be built on far left donations then it should be scrapped. This was all under the Liberal umbrella and Harper must have felt the same way as he has cut all funding. One down two to go. Doubt if the general public gives a damn if this guilt trip palace ever opens up.

How about building a Canadian Museum of Responsibilities instead.

Is it big enough to hold a new NHL rink?

Over half of the so called private funding raised by Gail Asper and Company is in fact money stolen from Manitoba Hydro and Manitoba Public Insurance.

The NDP under Gary Doer forced the crown corps to hand over PUBLIC money and the trough pigs at the Asper organization were allowed to put the stolen public money on the books as "Private Donations".

The sooner we give them all the money they need to complete the project, the quicker we can start charging admission to recoup the cost...oh wait.

These HRC human rights perverts & goons, where to busy plotting propaganda with a twisted view of a vision of racism disguised as human rights. To even have a project manager. Which goes to show that the "Message" was more important than the means.
Not one dime of public money for these Goebbels in drag.
For a museum built on the premise of special privileges based on gender, race or skin color. Including its anti-Religious bias except for the biggest killer in Human history. Islam.
Equal Law for everyone. Its that simple.
No revisionist history to distort real Individual rights to collective ones by group.
Its hatred of Christianity alone disqualifies it as nothing but a propaganda mill for Marxists.

"Project Management".

Yet another term stolen from the past (pre-software usage era), often used by neophytes seeking sophisticated-sounding words to hoodwink the public at large.

Now it seems like everyone from dirt farmers to envirokooks have a "Mission Statement" (sounds good to the news vacuum, so it gets published).

The recurring thread titie for this one is always worth a laugh!

Thanks for the link, Kate.

The worst part about the project is the way they went about doing it. i.e. play up the attendance figures, lowball the cost until the project is past the point of no return, etc.. The mismanagement of the project is shameful but hopefully not willful. However the dishonesty about it right from the start is what irks people the most I think.

recurring thread TITLE worth a laugh ...

' . . . play up the attendance figures, lowball the cost until the project is past the point of no return . . . mismanagement of the project is shameful . . . the dishonesty about it right from the start . . ."

Say what you will, but this project was meant to be a symbol of the values and principles that led to the Human Rights Act apparatus as it exists in Canada today, and by gawd I think they nailed it!

The inscription over the lobby entrance is wonderful: "NOBODY expects the Canadian Human Rights Commission!"