Thursday, May 13, 2004
Reasons I'm Not Voting Tory, #648
The last post was not about the fitness of the Klein government to govern. This one is.
News reaches us that Health Minister Gary Mar has, over the course of two years, awarded his Executive Assistant of eight years, Kelley Charlebois, a quarter million dollars in untendered government contracts. While Mar notes that government policy is to use the competitive bid process for contracts of $100 000 or more, and while it's possible that none of the individual contracts awarded Charlebois were for amounts that high, that doesn't mean it's okay to automatically direct contracts to your friends and cronies. It's a good thing we have a Public Accounts Committee to. . . aw, fuck.
Further commentary is not to come by reason of lack of necessity - it's getting to the point at which searing criticisms of the government write themselves.
Later: Something having nothing to do with provincial politics. I promise.
Conceivably still to come: The promised Eric Kierans tribute.
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The last post was not about the fitness of the Klein government to govern. This one is.
News reaches us that Health Minister Gary Mar has, over the course of two years, awarded his Executive Assistant of eight years, Kelley Charlebois, a quarter million dollars in untendered government contracts. While Mar notes that government policy is to use the competitive bid process for contracts of $100 000 or more, and while it's possible that none of the individual contracts awarded Charlebois were for amounts that high, that doesn't mean it's okay to automatically direct contracts to your friends and cronies. It's a good thing we have a Public Accounts Committee to. . . aw, fuck.
Further commentary is not to come by reason of lack of necessity - it's getting to the point at which searing criticisms of the government write themselves.
Later: Something having nothing to do with provincial politics. I promise.
Conceivably still to come: The promised Eric Kierans tribute.
