Ontario just got hosed for $342-million, this is not a movie

AG reports remind me of the movie King Kong. We see that something monstrous is taking place, and New York is about to be destroyed. But don’t panic, with a click of a button, it all disappears. The TV is off.

Columnist Angelo Persichilli wonders about the value of having auditors general, such as Michael Ferguson, shown here, if they are just going to be ignored.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

June 13, 2016

TORONTO—News about the cost of Toronto Pan Am Games in 2015 shows how useless and costly the position of the auditor general is in Canadian governments. It doesn’t mean that the position of the auditor general isn’t needed or the people performing the job are inept. Even if at times their fin...

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