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by Fred Kirby July 21, 2004 Thank you Eileen Black for correcting me on the park’s name, it is appreciated.
I read where the Ontario tax
payers paid $500 million for a Social Service computer system that was
“inflexible from Day I” according When was the last time a politician at any level took responsibility for his or her action and resigned? They have to be removed kicking and screaming. Tax payers are hit with millions of dollars for inquests because those who are responsible or know who are refuse the ethical weight of responsibility. Accepting responsibility for behaviour whether it is breaking election promises, helping friends or honest mistakes is a key pillar of good government. Harry Truman, a most under-rated president of the USA, kept a sign on his desk. “The Buck Stops Here.” He practiced what it said. Those in political life should remember the buck stops with them. It does not stop with the people.
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to a report in the Toronto Star. The government says it will cost an extra
$10 million to fix the system. Meanwhile the 83 year old Leslie Frost
Natural Resource Centre near Dorset is being closed to save money.
Approximately 70 jobs in the area will disappear, their contribution to
the local economy will be lost which then reflects negatively on local
business, and a valuable education resource will no longer be available to
school children as far away as Toronto. Ordinary folk will pay through
their taxes for this computer fiasco and 70 workers will pay with the loss
of their livelihood. Who at Queens Park will take responsibility for any
of this? The Tories, who gave a sweetheart deal to their friends and
trumped it with a lucrative maintenance contract, refuse responsibility by
denying there is a problem; the Liberals, who say they have no grounds to
break the contract with Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting), say they
must live with it. They have a choice but choice brings responsibility
which they do not want. Compare Premier McGuinty’s behaviour with that of
Toronto’s Mayor David Miller’s decision, rightly or wrongly, to cancel the Island
bridge contract. Who pays? Not Accenture, not Harris, not McGuinty,
Ontario taxpayers pay for this latest piece of gross incompetence or
clever scam. And the folks in Dorset will pay and pay and pay.