Auditor-General Assails Ottawa Grits' Crazy Spending

[Erik Trammel]

Thanks to Mulroney's GST and other tax hikes, his FTA and NAFTA,
as well as Paul Martin's additional "revenue
enhancers" Canada's deficit (but not the debt)
has declined.

This does not mean, however, that the Liberals in
Ottawa under Jean Chretien have reformed from the
wasteful, irrational spending of the Turdeau era.
By no means.

For example the auditor-general, Denis Desautels, in
his latest rebuke points out that the federal government
has been providing Canada's aboriginals free money for
"mind-altering drugs". His study of the uninsured health
benefits for Canada's 640,000 status Indians found
widespread over prescriptions. Obviously criminal re-selling
of these drugs has been going on with impunity--the whole thing,
a $505 million tally underwritten by Canadian taxpayers, is disgraceful
and unconscionable on the part of the Liberal federal government.

The A.G. states that about $3 billion has been wasted on pogey,
tags, "the package", whatever, for East Coast fishermen. Chretien's
Ottawa Liberals doled out $3 billion over the past three years to
rationalize the fish industry and retain jobless fishermen with
virtually no results. Reform Party leader Preston Manning called the
whole mess a costly failure, but the Cretin, still believing that the
cod will return, defended this spending (of Ontario and Alberta money).

Then there was the "non privatization" of the air navigation system
to union dominated Nav Canada in which the government handed over
assets to this new monopoly for $1.5 billion, when they were worth $2.5
billion. Oh well, it is only other people's money. And this giveaway of
taxpayer
property was defended by the Cretin and his brain-dead Minister of
Transport,
David Collinette. [Where have we heard that name before?]