NDP Says Liberals Spent $149 Million Without Any Plans

TheTyee.ca

The NDP is accusing the Liberal government of privatizing services without doing proper diligence or even developing business cases to support their decisions.

The opposition bases the accusation on an auditor general's report released April 22 that they say raised troubling warnings about how the government has gone about contracting out. The report, An Audit of Joint Solution Procurement and the Revenue Management Project, recommended the government create a detailed business case for every project, strengthen conflict of interest measures for ministry staff and improve how it sets baseline information going into new contracts.

"I think there's some very sharp criticism, but it's couched in almost neutral language," said Bruce Ralston, the NDP finance critic. It's shocking the government would spend $149 million with no business case, he said. "It's outrageous."