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Saturday, 07 November 2009

Value for money? What a joke!: If you think spending eight thousand bucks to send Commissar Jennifer Lynch to a “human rights” schmoozefest in Dublin is money ill-spent, get a load of this chart (from a hot-off-the-presses CHRC report) detailing the other money purloined from the put-upon taxpayer. (No charge, apparently, for the gobbledeygook listed under the “Alignment to Government of Canada Outcomes”--but don't forget to read the fine print because that's where the full cost is revealed):
($ thousands)
Program Activity
2007-08
Actual
Spending
2008-09
Alignment to Government of Canada Outcomes
Main
Estimates
Planned
Spending1
Total
Authorities2
Actual
Spending
Human Rights Knowledge Development
and Dissemination Program
6,190
3,631
4,026
4,041
4,375
A diverse society that promotes
linguistic duality and social inclusion
Discrimination Prevention Program
5,347
6,234
6,424
6,918
6,516
A diverse society that promotes
linguistic duality and social inclusion
Human Rights Dispute Resolution
Program
10,456
10,743
10,743
11,928
11,478
A diverse society that promotes
linguistic duality and social inclusion
Total
21,993
20,608
21,193
22,887
22,369
 
1 As indicated in the 2008–09 Report on Plans and Priorities, the Planned Spending included an amount of $585,000 for the funding related to the repeal of section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This funding was not received in 2008–09, but was received in 2009–10 and also for future years.
2 The 2008–09 Total Authorities represent an increase of approximately $2.3 million or 11 percent over the 2008–09 Main Estimates of $20.6 million. This difference represents funding received through the Supplementary Estimates for 2007–08 operating budget carry-forward, pay list requirements not forecasted and the salary increases resulting from the signed collective bargaining agreements.
You would think with all that lucre coming in on a regular basis, Jen’s racket could at least muster the largesse to pick up the tab for what have turned out to be comically misnamed “freedom of information” requests. But as we know, in the CHRC universe “freedom of information” is as chimerical as the threat of Namaimo Nazis is all too real.

Posted by: scaramouche at 21:58 | link | comments (1)


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#1  07 November 2009 - 21:24
 
These people are a joke, I do not recognize their alleged authority over me.
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