B.C.’s three opposition parties united this week to demand the auditor general probe a so-called “kickback scheme” involving one of the companies responsible for administering millions of dollars of government grants to clean technology projects.
BC United, BC Green and BC Conservative MLAs voted for an independent probe of accounting firm MNP, which the government has hired to administer at least two grant programs, but which is also facing allegations it demanded so-called “success fees” of as high as 20 per cent of the grant amount to help firms win money.
This goes on in farming grants as well. Its interesting that some farmers with certain accounting firms get grants administered by certain accounting firms. Sounds like a giant “WE charity” scam.
Pay to play. They are so bold it’s unbelievable. And your thought only the Biden crime family did this..
Free money attracts a certain kind of grifter.. What are your goals?.. Can it be measured and who is responsible..
Add in some untouchable identity politics PLAYERS and you got yourself BORING conversation nobody wants to have..
Intolerable politicians and activists harvesting the free money before somebody else does.. I would, if I could.. But don’t pretend that the undefined goals (zero carbon) is an excuse for fraud.. A trillion dollar wool blanket :)..
Just in case anyone is out of the loop still, this is what ALL government programs are. They are all money laundering scams. Take $1000 from a taxpayer, pay a friend $700 to administer program, get $200 back from friend. And there’s a million different variations on the theme, but basically the idea is using the government to steal money from makers and spreading it out amongst government parasites and their friends, then sprinkling the remaining crumbs back to the taxpayer. ($200 picnic table winds up costing $3000, $80,000app costs $60,000,000 etc)
Every time the government “grants” money to some company, they’re really just stealing money from the citizenry.
“Tax breaks” or “incentives” or “subsidies” – its all corruption, its all theft.
But, but, but the Media calls them investments!
lve pretty much never been of the attitude gubbamint ‘start up’ for EXISTING technology is basically using the income taxes levied against the non-recipients of the grant, to finance competitive advantage to the now favored firm.
there are a hundred places politics can weasel itself into that arrangement.
Sweet gig. Charged with handing out the money then getting a 20% cut when companies receive the money.
Sopranos got nothing on these guys.
Remember this cockroach?
https://obj.ca/mnp-welcomes-michael-wernick-to-its-ottawa-team/
Electric logging trucks? Colour me skeptical. That was until I found out they put a Caterpillar diesel engine under the hood to juice up the batteries which makes it a hybrid in my books.
But still.
In the narrow application of logging trucks it makes a lot of sense, since going up the hill they are mostly empty, and coming back down they are loaded, so they can use the regenerative braking to recharge the batteries, but they ran into a problem with too much energy generated, so they figured out how to use the generator as a jake brake.
And yes, it’s a hybrid, the way hybrids should be built.
What is crystal clear is that the federal government overtaxes the population….they then use their ill gotten gain to interfere in the market and in the jurisdiction of provinces and municipalities. Poilievre should make it an election campaign promise to cut federal taxes across the board by a minimum of 10%. That puts money into the pockets of taxpayers and gets it out of the hands of the feds. And as an added bonus, we can relieve ourselves of countless worthless public “servants”.
Taxpayer shake-down is only a portion of our loathsome system that johnboy describes.
Kick-backs and cash campaign contributions are a part of the pyramid which encompasses government ministries contracting out actual work for high fees, often without bidding. No benchmarking the cost-effectiveness of services or even that they were delivered.
The Cullen Commission only looked at a tiny portion of our pervasive organized crime society.
Mediot Rob Shaw is an NDP lickspittle.
Just Sayin…….
Interesting that it’s Myers Norris Penny out in BC. Federally, it’s KPMG who are coming under fire for accepting a subcontract on the ArriveScam project from GC Strategies (that two-man company in someone’s basement or near offer). Given the “big four” lord over the smaller firms, will not mourn if they are humbled.
“Right to Repair” Louis Rossmann covers the story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLN7BSSgltA