Liberals Caught Handing Out Untendered Contracts
The Liberals caught at it again, this time in Ontario:
TORONTO — Details of multimillion-dollar untendered consulting contracts are just some of the revelations expected Wednesday from a special investigation into how Ontario spent $1 billion over 10 years to create electronic health records and produced little of lasting value.
Auditor General Jim McCarter will release a 50-page special report, which was commissioned last June as the Liberal government tried to defend itself against growing reports about sole-sourced contracts and expense claims by high paid consultants at eHealth Ontario.
So far, the media have reported on $16 million worth of untendered eHealth contracts that were given to consultants, some of whom had close ties to top executives at the provincial agency, and were even paid for consulting each other, driving up their fees.
Even now, months after the scandal first broke and forced the government to replace both eHealth CEO Sarah Kramer and chair Alan Hudson, there are still almost 300 consultants under contract at the agency – down from 385 in April.
Details of some controversial eHealth contracts have been spilling out since last May, including one $30-million, sole-sourced deal for IBM that was approved by a powerful committee of the Liberal cabinet and could prove very troubling for the government.
Health Minister David Caplan is set to resign from his post as minister Wednesday, the same day Auditor General Jim McCarter will release the scathing report into the eHealth Ontario spending scandal that is expected to show $1 billion in wasted funds.
“His resignation is not official until tomorrow,” said Greg Dennis, communications director for Caplan.
Sound familiar?
The Great Liberal Sponsorship Scandal
Canada’s Gun registry $ 2 Billion Debacle – and CBC is after the Conservative government for not collecting fees with their amnesty.
If there is one thing the Liberals can do, is waste our money on their friends.
October 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
What has McAsswipe or his Scumbag Fascist Party of Ontario got to worry about. All those brain dead wankers in TO will still vote Liberal, leaving the rest of us to pick up there garbage.