Government to spend $70 million on a program that never saw the light of day. Continued spending taxpayer money promoting program after they cancelled it by giving contracts to crony friends, removing the auditor general"s power to stop them
Hard for Government to Claim $800Gs Ad Buy Wasn't Partisan
This column was published in in the Toronto Sun.
How much of your money should the government spend telling you what they didn't do? Common sense and respect for taxpayer money would say not a single penny. But the Ontario government seems to have neither of these virtues.
Documents obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through a freedom of information request reveal that the Ontario government spent nearly $800,000 on a brand-new ad buy from the budget of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) after they had cancelled the plan.
