Even a rudimentary understanding of business and government practises, along with some reading comprehension, make the decision to hire consultants perfectly understandable and logical. It's something that ALL levels of government, from ALL parties, do as a matter of routine. A 30 second Google search of "Liberal, consultant" will yield results that make this look like a drop in the bucket.
Headlines like this play well to the lunch-pail brigade, who can't conceive of nnumbers that high having value because of their own limitations, and the anti-Harper crowd, who would find a way to condemn him if he found a cure for cancer, AIDS and stuttering all at once.
Yes, I do know the government has in the past, outsourced projects to the private sector. But again, I could not find an instance where gov. paid an outside source for help making budget cuts, which will directly effect peoples lives.... And Harper curing cancer and AIDS, really? Apparently, he has trouble getting in and out of bathrooms.
Andre Picard, a Canadian public health reporter, argued that the public’s focus should be on the delivery of electronic health records and not “disingenuous tsk-tsking about the hiring of consultants.” He writes, “the true scandal in Ontario is the utter failure of the Ministry of Health to create electronic health records, which will ultimately lead to better and more efficient patient care.”Picard argued that Ministry of Health bureaucrats are powerless when it comes to making real change in healthcare, as their political boss’s only vision for healthcare is not irritating the public so they can be re-elected. The result is change and innovation can, seemingly, only come from independent agencies or outside consultants.
Even academics, which I will not deny are intelligent people, have a vested interest in the status quo. Feds pony about 30% of the funding to Universities...you think they are going to even LOOK at cutting there? Also, which province do you pick from? Will someone from BC be ****** off someone from U of T was chosen? Damn straight they will be.
At the OP...come on now. I think we know which way you lean from the many threads you start trying to bash the current government. But this is just media fear mongering on a slow news day.
IDK why everything is bold and italicized. I can't undo it for some reason.
I get it, but I don't think this is the exactly same as what we're seeing with Deloitte. They're asking for help in forming policy. Martin did it without some co's help, why can't Flaherty
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You're right about ****** off Westerners so he'd make a team representative of all of Canada.
if you need a hammer to fix something, you go and buy a hammer. Unless you're one of those folks that think its worthwhile to spend the next 5 years crafting one in your basement.
Ahh but with the infinite resources of the Government of Canada, I'd be able to make that hammer, in my basement, in 1 day.
if that's all you think consultants are brought in for, you watch too much TV.
I watch no TV. I don't even have cable; don't need it.
And I'm not saying all consultants do the same thing or aren't useful.
last one...promise.
At the OP...come on now. I think we know which way you lean from the many threads you start trying to bash the current government. But this is just media fear mongering on a slow news day.
Harper isn't a conservative. He and leaders like him are now the 'right-wing' because Regan changed the definition of conservatism. Christian theocracy, Industrial Military Complex, deficit spending, blah, blah, blah. The only popular non-Neo-Con I know of is Ron Paul. I would vote for him if he was Canadian, running for PM, and had a sensible platform. I don't like Harper because his politics are purposely divisive and full of **** errr hate and people know it.
I'm not editing this ****.
