And you don't think that the Conservatives under PP would not? I could easily, easily see PP building only the first 3 Rivers and then pivoting to 12 CDC's and saying, "yup, these 15 ships represent a straight 'one for one' replacement of the 3 IRO and the 12 HAL's" in order to 'save' billions in spending.
I believe alot of those initiatives were put in place by the previous set of Fed's. I have little doubt that it will be revamped under the new set of Overlords.Don't worry, looks like we've got that covered...
Drive to reduce spending and the need to deliver on tax cuts.
Great question. As a tax payer we should know whether those programs are under review. Nothing I've seen in online research indicates any of them are under review, let alone dropped.
The LPC doesn't get a pass because there's a new boss. Toxic units in the CAF don't change all of a sudden because there's a new CO. Political parties are the same way. The bureaucratic red tape and lack of transparency our consecutive govermnets have surrounded themselves with over the last 40 years like a suit of armor hasn't changed.
What happens if they do exist?
Dumping a billion dollars into gender based mumbo jumbo where the money and money trail immediately dissappears isn't going to make Canada relevant in Africa. Canadians need that money more.
The process is working as well as our SHARP training and culture change in the CAF.
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Based on what? The process needs to be used or not used. We don’t need to invent a shit show like the US did.
I guess my reading comprehension is different than yours. I didn't see a billion dollars being allocated only and specifically into 'gender based mumbo jumbo'.
I'll humbly admit PM Carney is doing better than I thought he would, and I think better in a lot of areas than Poilievre would have did. It's still the same government with the same entitled politicians and bureaucrats that got used to getting what they wanted with little to no transparency over the last 11 years.
Bringing up ArriveCan is beating a dead horse but it's a perfect example of Canada's failure with oversight. We're a submarine with a screen door. Theres example after example of the government screwing up procurement, screwing up hiring, not vetting people, wasting millions and billions of dollars.
That has nothing to go with what you were proposing. DOGE wasn’t an oversight organisation.
No. DOGE was a failure. By all accounts and metrics it failed and it’s why no one talks about it anymore.
No we don’t. We have systems for finding efficiencies. It just needs to be used and enforced.
There's a GAC project browser budgets partners and results. Much of the "proof" comes from UN reports. Kind of like how UNRWA reports on all that money and construction materials getting to Palestinians to help them build their homes.
As a tax payer, worrying about female genital mutilation in Africa and supporting them with Canadian dollars is certainly your right.
I'm not sure. Do you think our current Justice Minister and Public Safety Minister are solid choices?
do you really believe that, in Africa, they pay any attention to our initiatives. Perhaps sending a dozen well drilling rigs and people to run them would have a greater effect and benefit those ladies a whole lot more. Having been in several of those countries and watched as they walked miles in some cases carrying a 5 gal. jug of water I can verify that they could care less about our efforts. You would be better to give the money to any of the major mission boards who have people on the ground and are desperate for funding to improve education and make it available because the boys don't get much past grade 5 either
Okay. We need an organization to catch and curb inefficiency with our government including how it does business with contractors.
Why isn't it being used and enforced?
That isn’t what DOGE does. I think you are confusing what DOGE was created for vs what you are asking in terms of oversight.
We are undergoing a massive efficiency exercise as we speak. The government of the day needs to decide that. Not create something new to do it.
Yes and how did that get identified as a problem?
Right. And how would that have been done?
Was also a risk management exercise that blatantly said they were going skip over the normal process.
Again how was that discovered?
Auditor General. Exactly. One of the many offices that do exactly what you are asking.
Yes, it’s the opposition’s job to do that. Based on info that came from the various reports from those orgs that do things like audits and reports. You are proving my point.
I think you are under some naive assumption that if we just had "proper oversight" and enforcement mechanisms that we wouldn't have cases like you listed above.
Very possible.
Would you say we improved since 2015?
Opposition parties. It's great they caught it but I don't think we should rely on them as being non partisan. I don't trust the CPC to report on something where they're guilty too.
We can't count on whistleblowers as a primary means of oversight and reporting.
It still exposed massive inefficiencies in the government. Inefficiencies the government promised to fix 5 years prior.
The Auditor General didnt discover it. The opposition did and reported it. Again, it's great they did but opposition parties arent non-partisan. They're going to report on violations where their hands are clean.
My contention there is the risk of the money being stolen or misappropriated.
