Posted on 10/17/2005 2:55:51 PM PDT by Clive
OTTAWA (CP) - A spending scandal in the federal Fisheries Department has claimed two casualties.
Two civil servants have been fired, and others face disciplinary action for inappropriate activities, a spokesman for Fisheries Minister Geoff Regan said Tuesday. The minister declined to provide more details, citing privacy laws. "You should know that over the past year and a half there have been disciplinary actions taken, and in fact there have been cases where people have been fired for inappropriate expenses," he said.
A new audit at the department, first reported by The Canadian Press, found a litany of problems in hospitality and travel expenses, including exorbitant prices for airfare and travel claims with no evidence of any work having been done.
One staffer charged $6,000 in hotel bills and meals so he could be with his spouse for a birth.
Regan said the findings result from audits that were part of Prime Minister Paul Martin's overhaul of spending, and that improvements have been made.
"We are examining in detail the report that's been done and have tasked my officials to come back within a week," he said.
"Where appropriate, monies will be recovered and disciplinary will be taken but in fact this audit did not in fact indicate that any actions were fraudulently taken."
All expenses over $1,000 now are being examined, and there are spot checks of claims under $1,000, he said.
The problems at the Fisheries Department were the subject of fresh attacks in the Commons over spending and contracting irregularities.
Tory Leader Stephen Harper cited problems at Indian Affairs, where a contract this year stipulated that a consultant was to leave no paper trail.
"Why, nearly two years after the auditor general condemned this practice in the sponsorship scandal, does the government still award contracts with no proper audit paper trail?" he asked
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Why can't these people live in peace and hominy?
It really doesn't matter. Canadians live in Cuba north. The socialist mindset of Canadians will continue to ignore the corruption of their masters, because in the mindset of socialists, governments are good, and big governments are even better.
Why, nearly two years after the auditor general condemned this practice in the sponsorship scandal, does the government still award contracts with no proper audit paper trail?" he asked
Now that's what I call a rhetorical question! Why, indeed? LOL!
As if every single Canadian doesn't know already.
The Liberal Party is distinguishable from a criminal conspiracy, and the Liberal Government from a Third World kleptocracy, only by the patina of legitimacy provided by the Official Lies of the Canadian Establishment Media.
Once one strips away the self-regarding Canadian moral superiority narrative, there is nothing left but the squalid wrangling of rats over cheese.
You know my solution - horse-whippings through the streets, and Heads On Pikes!
Lookee here, minor Libranos are taking the heat for the big bosses. Such loyalty to the omerta!
I like grits with butter. People who put sugar on their grits are weenies.
Salt butter and red eye gravy.
Socialists are always criminals. They believe in the confiscation of property that is not theirs, ergo, they're thieves at least, if not deviants like Clinton.
Regards, Ivan
No. Why, after nearly two years, haven't the Conservatives been able to convince the voters to put them into power when even the voters know the Grits are crooks? There is a fair amount of political incompetence on the Right.
GRITS = Girls Raised in the South. We Grits know what we are. And, we're definately not Canadian.
Grits with shredded cheddar cheese. Mmmmmmmm
Grits?
Girls Raised in the South?
What does this have to do with grits?
The Conservative Party lacks a 'killer instinct', except for its internal politics - there, the Tories put the Borgias to shame.
Once one strips away the self-regarding Canadian moral superiority narrative, there is nothing left but the squalid wrangling of rats over cheese.......
That's true, very quotable!
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