Finding the "easy" cuts
$90,000 a day for private consultants to find “savings”
If the elected government does not have the expertise to find those "easy" cuts that will save the $40 billion or so in deficit spending, perhaps it should not have run for office in the first place. If indeed, this government requires the help of private enterprise to determine policy and direction, perhaps the wages of the PM and his cabinet could be docked to pay for this lack of expertise.
Either that, or perhaps these consultants should run for office. It is high time government takes charge and makes the tough decisions that are required to implement policy without hiding behind excessively pricey consultants' reports all on the taxpayers' dime. Did the PM find the political fallout from program cuts too difficult to sell without shelling out millions for a private enterprise firewall? Perhaps he should not have made the promises he did.
Yves Marchand
Waterloo, Ontario
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