accountability

Prof. Pettigrew: student evaluations won’t help

Prof. Pettigrew: You’ll just need to trust us.

The Conservative backbencher seems interested in empowering MPs for the purposes of properly scrutinizing how the government spends money.

Students currently need to meet with the VP Finance to see details

Most student unions aren’t transparent about your cash

When questions were raised this summer about potential legal ramifications to the handling of the G8 Legacy Fund, I emailed Lorne Sossin (a friend of the show) to get his thoughts. After the interim auditor general again mused of the “interesting debate” that could be had, I checked in with Dean Sossin again to see if he had anything more to add.

No one is asking Harper to break the law. The conflict he’s complaining about exists only in his head.

Asked about the matter in Question Period this afternoon, Diane Finley explains her office’s commitment to transparency and clarity in all things.

Ministerial aide Ryan Sparrow helpfully suggests a new slogan for the next Conservative re-election campaign.

“We’re going to put an end to the culture of entitlement, and replace it with a culture centered on accountability,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper, April 20, 2006.

Not Jayson Myers of the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters Canada, that’s for sure. Why, just last month, he was able to set up a meeting with the Prime Minister himself, along with the then freshly shuffled ministers of International Trade and Public Works to discuss business opportunities with – France? really? – as well as manufacturing competitiveness, industrial benefits in federal procurement and support for Canadian exporters.

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