And the wing-nuts talk about Tony’s gazebo. Montreal, you’re just special.
$700k, folks, should be done by July.
26 Replies to “No corruption there.”
Whoa, $700 grand for a gazebo? That’s gotta be some kind of world record. Only in Quebec, a province rich in resources on perpetual dole a la Equalization.
ooooooooh, lead paint!!!!! The horror!!!! At least it’s not ASBESTOS!!! The deadly lead-rays and the deadly asbestos-rays will stream out and bewitch you!!!
Sensible people might say, “give it a couple of coats of outdoor, non-lead, paint.”
But there are no more sensible people.
The bigger a government is, the more they spend other people’s money…and the less they care that it is not their money.
And out of that $700,000 we all know about $50,000 or maybe even $100,000 was given to someone in some brown enveloppe to thank them.
One small Coke bottle full of gas, and a dirty rag,
and that thing would burn like a $100,000,000 dollar fire..
A fitting symbol of the riding.
That is some scary Shiite-
When you look at Socialism in Canada, and America, and the Sheep that follow them,
that will be next.
We are moving in that direction very quickly. Just think of all the words you can go to jail for now.
Maikeru, a fitting symbol of Canada.
$660,000.00 on lawyer fees, $30,000.00 on paying city union workers and $5,000.00 on materials – I know, yet you are dealing with tax payer’s money – the last $5,000.00 will be spent on opening ceremony and media-spin.
…and the Empire State Building was built in 400 days.
Hey! Mordecai Richler, I have read almost all of his informative and humour -filled novels, But anyways Mr. Richler was Jew in Montreal and recognized early on the Separatist Movement was and is still a means to fund the bedraggled Baby-Boomer Generation sitting around smoking cigarettes at the Universities.
Gutless Bureaucrats and even more Gutless Politicians cannot reward the esteem of such a Person In Quebec.
What’s that you say the “Bloc Quebecois” has just announced they will not be taking up the Federalism Schtick? Gosh just how prescient does a Jew have to be in Quebec.
” …his critiques of the province’s nationalist movement earned him scorn.”
The writer must have meant “… earned him accolades.”
Richler’s “critiques”, especially the brilliant long one in The New Yorker, were bang on, funny and deserving of multiple accolades and zero scorn, if we disregard the whines of the usual shrivel-souled cretins.
However you look at it, Quebec politicians and union fascists (bosses, not the sheep) made the province most corrupt non-jurisdiction in the Americas if not in the whole damn world.
If you can imagine a high school class, given the tools, paint and team leader could have done the $700,000 job in one day for a few thousand and change. Then they would be happy to go to their local coffee shop to have some pop.
Or maybe get some weed.
No?
Since no-one is planning on eating the paint, just scrape of any loose stuff or lightly sand and paint over it. Wear a mask while sanding or scraping. If you have a prolonged occupational exposure to lead, you know the drill and precautions shouldn’t hold up the job. I live in sour gas country where parts per million can kill you and wells have hundreds of thousands parts per million. Every job comes equipped with breathing air. The job doesn’t stop.
Yes, rich in resources…did you know that their hydro-electricity generation is not taken into account for their equalization payments? That’s why their electricity costs are so low…the ROC subsidizes them.
Where the mafia, biker gangs, terrorists, and crooked politicians all come from.
Nice culture french people.
OHHHHhhhhhhh Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette je te plumerai Je te
Dry lead paint is non-toxic but it does have an odour of corruption to it.
I can’t tell the dimensions of that gazebo from the pics, but will assume it is about 100 feet across, and dozens of people can dance on it on Saturday night to the music of Guy (pronounced “ghee”) Lombardo and his Royal Canadiens.
That’s not too bad for $700,000.
My neighbour built one about 15 feet across, cost him about a thousand bucks as he did the work himself,without benefit of a Union contract or labor.
If anyone doesn’t understand that the Quebec government-construction industry is the most corrupt on this planet, the person must have been living in a far away cave.
You Canadians are so funny ! Complaining about the “modest” cost of a gazebo. Here in “progressive” CA we built (almost*) a SF Bay Bridge … repair … for an orig. cost est. of $1.1 billion which ballooned to more than $6.3 billlion. Or how about our Bullet Train to the brain … originally promised to cost $9 billion … which now stands at $79 billion (and rising) … but Dianne Feinstein’s husbands construction companies are getting FILTH-IER RICH !!!! Prevailing wages, UNIONISTAS, political graft (see: “HRC”), Sierra club, EIR, lawsuits to save the wetlands, feather-bedding, pocket-lining, affirmative-action, cheap Chinese steel, incompetent State Engineers … you name it … the vast majority of our ignorant voters LOVE bright shiny objects … no matter how intellectually bankrupt. We bring a whole new definition to “Low Information Voter”.
* The bridge repair is being repaired for a design defect that has caused vital bolts to corrode at an alarming rate. But the repair est. is only about $20 million or so.
OTTAWA – The new Liberal government is blowing too much money on pricey office renovations, including hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by the minister of infrastructure, Conservatives charged Tuesday.
Alberta Tory MP Blaine Calkins says the Liberals can’t seem to help themselves when it comes to spending.
“The show stopper is the minister of infrastructure and communities, who spent $835,000 on renovations and paintings,” Calkins said during question period.
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I do not think it is 100 feet in diameter, maybe 20 or 25 feet, look at the black trash can to the left, that is maybe 2 feet in diameter and maybe 3 feet high.
If it was 100 feet in diameter this would be somewhat less scandalous, but it looks like a regular small-ish gazebo, thus the $700,000 can not possibly be justified.
They should have been able to do the job for less than $10,000.
I am pretty sure a 100ft dia. Gazebo would violate dozens of zoning, building codes, and environmental regulations. It would have to demolished and rebuilt according to the current gazebo regulations. That would easily trieble the paltry $700k price tag.
Oh to have been one of the connected contractors on THAT project!
“…$700 grand for a gazebo? …”
No, it would be many times more than $700k for a gazebo. $700k was for repainting a gazebo they already have.
I spent ten weeks in northern Vietnam at the end of 2014. The site I worked at had several gazebos, two of which had not been built when I arrived. The construction crews finished the two before I left; each took a week. Don’t know how to post a picture here, have several, and they looked great!
Whoa, $700 grand for a gazebo? That’s gotta be some kind of world record. Only in Quebec, a province rich in resources on perpetual dole a la Equalization.
ooooooooh, lead paint!!!!! The horror!!!! At least it’s not ASBESTOS!!! The deadly lead-rays and the deadly asbestos-rays will stream out and bewitch you!!!
Sensible people might say, “give it a couple of coats of outdoor, non-lead, paint.”
But there are no more sensible people.
The bigger a government is, the more they spend other people’s money…and the less they care that it is not their money.
And out of that $700,000 we all know about $50,000 or maybe even $100,000 was given to someone in some brown enveloppe to thank them.
The gazebo reminded me of Auschwitz:
http://i.cbc.ca/1.3610061.1464745742!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/richler-gazebo.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeit_macht_frei#/media/File:Entrance_Auschwitz_I.jpg
One small Coke bottle full of gas, and a dirty rag,
and that thing would burn like a $100,000,000 dollar fire..
A fitting symbol of the riding.
That is some scary Shiite-
When you look at Socialism in Canada, and America, and the Sheep that follow them,
that will be next.
We are moving in that direction very quickly. Just think of all the words you can go to jail for now.
Maikeru, a fitting symbol of Canada.
$660,000.00 on lawyer fees, $30,000.00 on paying city union workers and $5,000.00 on materials – I know, yet you are dealing with tax payer’s money – the last $5,000.00 will be spent on opening ceremony and media-spin.
…and the Empire State Building was built in 400 days.
Hey! Mordecai Richler, I have read almost all of his informative and humour -filled novels, But anyways Mr. Richler was Jew in Montreal and recognized early on the Separatist Movement was and is still a means to fund the bedraggled Baby-Boomer Generation sitting around smoking cigarettes at the Universities.
Gutless Bureaucrats and even more Gutless Politicians cannot reward the esteem of such a Person In Quebec.
What’s that you say the “Bloc Quebecois” has just announced they will not be taking up the Federalism Schtick? Gosh just how prescient does a Jew have to be in Quebec.
” …his critiques of the province’s nationalist movement earned him scorn.”
The writer must have meant “… earned him accolades.”
Richler’s “critiques”, especially the brilliant long one in The New Yorker, were bang on, funny and deserving of multiple accolades and zero scorn, if we disregard the whines of the usual shrivel-souled cretins.
However you look at it, Quebec politicians and union fascists (bosses, not the sheep) made the province most corrupt non-jurisdiction in the Americas if not in the whole damn world.
If you can imagine a high school class, given the tools, paint and team leader could have done the $700,000 job in one day for a few thousand and change. Then they would be happy to go to their local coffee shop to have some pop.
Or maybe get some weed.
No?
Since no-one is planning on eating the paint, just scrape of any loose stuff or lightly sand and paint over it. Wear a mask while sanding or scraping. If you have a prolonged occupational exposure to lead, you know the drill and precautions shouldn’t hold up the job. I live in sour gas country where parts per million can kill you and wells have hundreds of thousands parts per million. Every job comes equipped with breathing air. The job doesn’t stop.
Yes, rich in resources…did you know that their hydro-electricity generation is not taken into account for their equalization payments? That’s why their electricity costs are so low…the ROC subsidizes them.
Where the mafia, biker gangs, terrorists, and crooked politicians all come from.
Nice culture french people.
OHHHHhhhhhhh Alouette, gentille Alouette Alouette je te plumerai Je te
Dry lead paint is non-toxic but it does have an odour of corruption to it.
Peshawwwwww… that’s peanuts. They’re also spending $3,450,000 on artificial tree stumps! http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/artificial-tree-stumps-will-cost-montreal-dollar345-million/ar-BBtIKXE?ocid=spartanntp
I can’t tell the dimensions of that gazebo from the pics, but will assume it is about 100 feet across, and dozens of people can dance on it on Saturday night to the music of Guy (pronounced “ghee”) Lombardo and his Royal Canadiens.
That’s not too bad for $700,000.
My neighbour built one about 15 feet across, cost him about a thousand bucks as he did the work himself,without benefit of a Union contract or labor.
If anyone doesn’t understand that the Quebec government-construction industry is the most corrupt on this planet, the person must have been living in a far away cave.
You Canadians are so funny ! Complaining about the “modest” cost of a gazebo. Here in “progressive” CA we built (almost*) a SF Bay Bridge … repair … for an orig. cost est. of $1.1 billion which ballooned to more than $6.3 billlion. Or how about our Bullet Train to the brain … originally promised to cost $9 billion … which now stands at $79 billion (and rising) … but Dianne Feinstein’s husbands construction companies are getting FILTH-IER RICH !!!! Prevailing wages, UNIONISTAS, political graft (see: “HRC”), Sierra club, EIR, lawsuits to save the wetlands, feather-bedding, pocket-lining, affirmative-action, cheap Chinese steel, incompetent State Engineers … you name it … the vast majority of our ignorant voters LOVE bright shiny objects … no matter how intellectually bankrupt. We bring a whole new definition to “Low Information Voter”.
* The bridge repair is being repaired for a design defect that has caused vital bolts to corrode at an alarming rate. But the repair est. is only about $20 million or so.
Meanwhile, back in Ottawa. . .
Conservatives blast Liberals for office renovation expenses
More. . .
I do not think it is 100 feet in diameter, maybe 20 or 25 feet, look at the black trash can to the left, that is maybe 2 feet in diameter and maybe 3 feet high.
If it was 100 feet in diameter this would be somewhat less scandalous, but it looks like a regular small-ish gazebo, thus the $700,000 can not possibly be justified.
They should have been able to do the job for less than $10,000.
I am pretty sure a 100ft dia. Gazebo would violate dozens of zoning, building codes, and environmental regulations. It would have to demolished and rebuilt according to the current gazebo regulations. That would easily trieble the paltry $700k price tag.
Oh to have been one of the connected contractors on THAT project!
“…$700 grand for a gazebo? …”
No, it would be many times more than $700k for a gazebo. $700k was for repainting a gazebo they already have.
I spent ten weeks in northern Vietnam at the end of 2014. The site I worked at had several gazebos, two of which had not been built when I arrived. The construction crews finished the two before I left; each took a week. Don’t know how to post a picture here, have several, and they looked great!