Democracy Gone Astray

Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.

All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.

[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Tony Clement Investigation Won't Go Further: Auditor General

OTTAWA - The federal spending watchdog says the Harper government clearly broke the rules when it set up and doled out a controversial $50-million G8 legacy fund.

Still, interim Auditor General John Wiersema says there's no point in revisiting the matter in another audit.

He says he's satisfied his office was not misled and came to the right conclusions about the fund in a report last spring.

The report concluded the Harper government kept Parliament in the dark when it diverted $50 million from a border infrastructure fund to create the legacy fund.

It also found that public servants were shut out of the process of selecting which projects would get money from the fund, set up to help the Parry Sound-Muskoka region host last year's G8 summit.

Thirty-two beautification projects were approved by John Baird, then infrastructure minister, based strictly on the recommendation of local MP Tony Clement, now Treasury Board president.

Origin
Source: Huffington 

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