Ministers don\u0027t fix the problem because they don\u0027t want it fixed. If the public doesn\u0027t care, it will only get worse.
Reporters have seen these chains many times before, in which a platoon of well-paid and presumably intelligent human beings spends days on end failing to deliver boilerplate nonsense, never mind on deadline. There’s no excuse for that. But as swollen as our heads might sometimes be, journalists aren’t MPs. It’s still striking to see the bureaucracy and a minister’s office collaborating so earnestly to thwart an elected official’s perfectly banal inquiries.
Kyle Harrietha, deputy chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, clearly knows staff are playing fast and loose with the rules. “I’m expecting the Speaker to tut tut and then say it is not for him to judge the quality of a response but we will see,” he wrote to all and sundry. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation discovered that such funding had gone toward a show titled “All the Sex I’ve Ever Had,” in which “a select group of seniors recounted their sexual experiences, including their ‘first time, best time, worst time and last time’.
There’s no spreadsheet of this program’s expenditures? No one scrawled them on a notepad? The ministry really can’t add up the figures … given a month and a half? True or not, something is seriously amiss.
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