Documents tabled in the House of Commons this week reveal that while Canadians were tightening their belt and bracing for the recession, many civil servants were continuing to spend thousands of dollars of taxpayers money on frills and small perks of the job.
Moreover, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
While some of the more than 100 departments and agencies that reported Monday were able to come up with figures on how much they spent on a list of 21 items submitted by New Democratic Party MP Glenn Thibeault, many others including big spending departments like Foreign Affairs, pleaded their accounting systems didn’t allow them to access that level of detail, meaning the true bills are likely higher.
While government spending on golf balls became the subject of controversy after Justice John Gomery, head of the sponsorship inquiry described them as small town cheap — a charge former Prime Minister Jean Chretien rebutted — that didn’t stop civil servants from spending more than $30,000 on golf balls and golf tees in the 2008-09 fiscal year. The biggest single spender on golf balls was the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation which said they have put a halt to the practice.
How can the NDP support this government? LOL. Just kidding.
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