Auditor General: Please do a thorough audit of the gun registry
$$$ TWO BILLION and Background Checks Done on a "discretionary basis"?
What the heck was the money used for?
*** If Canadians wanted to do something constructive to improve security for Canadians, the Auditor-General must do a more thorough audit of the gun registry and find out where the money was coming from to pay for the shortfalls -- from $2 million heading to $2 billion?
*** Is it true (what is being bruited about) that, apparently, $400 million went to computers which did NOT work properly and about another $400 million had to be added to fix it. Approximately, $800 million for computers?
*** Is it the case that the increases went to pay for outmoded communications and computer equipment which had deferred maintenance for 10 years -- that scarcely any went into increased manpower? Is it true that significant funds went to pay for the security for the Summit of the Americas--you remember, the Pepper Spray Summit--and the G8 meeting in Alberta--intended to gain Liberal votes there.
*** Should this money not have come out of the pocket of Foreign Affairs instead of mostly from the security agencies' budgets?
*** Is it the case that money always seems to be siphoned off so that the manpower never returned to its pre -1990's levels?
*** Perhaps the Auditor General should determine if CSIS and the RCMP have been given enough funding to carry out their mandate of protecting Canadians, especially since the demands for their services have increased substantially after 9/11 and they have not had a significant increase in manpower to deal with the increase.
*** How is the manpower situation, given normal attrition rates?
*** Is there enough money for investigations?
*** How many investigations have been put on hold because of lack of funding? *** Will there be enough experienced investigators (Bring back some who retired if necessary.) to handle the Sponsorship/ Slush Funds/ Adscam investigations so they can be done in a timely and thorough way?
The budget will be presented in a couple of weeks.
*** Will the government provide the security agencies the funding that's needed to protect Canadians -- or will the gun registry black hole get bigger?
*** How many cases of influence peddling have been "under investigation" for years -- yet, no one has been charged? That is, they go under investigation but never make it to court. Why not? I'll bet there has been lots of paper flying around but no results. Would that be for politically sensitive reasons?
Consider some of the information in several posts at least since Feb. 24, 04 and Feb. 25, 04.
