Harpercons Pay Private Firm 90,000$ Per Day To, Well, Find Ways To Find Cuts

Yes, boys ‘n’ girls, put this one under the file of if this weren’t so sad and dire for Canadians, it might actually be rip roaringly hilarious. Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo are actually going to pay the firm, Deloitte, 19.8 million smackers or 90,000$ per day until about March 31 to help these clowns find more ingenious ways to put the screws to Canadians, kinda like the way the KPMG did for Mayor Boss Hogg in Toronto, but on a much larger scale.  There is, apparently, an option to extend this contract by an extra year. Translation: Deloitte’s hatchet people will more than likely take their dear sweet time to not have the work completed by the end of March of next year, so as to continue this lucrative contract with Stevie Spiteful and Deficit Jimbo.

Oh, oh, oh! What do we have here? Tugboat Tony wants proposals on how to cut 5% and 10% from his people.

Tony Clement, Treasury Board president, has asked 67 departments and agencies to submit two scenarios this fall, one with cuts of five per cent, another with cuts of 10 per cent.

A nine-person committee headed by Clement will vet the proposals, and the results will become part of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s spring budget. Clement has said that transfer payments to individuals and the provinces will not be touched.

I dare those people to tell Tugboat Tony to basically, show us the reports of that  $50Million G8 spending and maybe we’ll get back to you on your demand. Betcha they won’t do it, though. Brown noses! So much for you show us your’s and we may show you ours’.

Back to Deloitte’s expensive contract to smell out the budget cuts in the name of deficit reduction. Tugboat Tony is now feverishly defending this latest Harpercon luxury, via his mouthpiece, naturally:

“Engaging private sector advisers who have been successful with cost-saving operational reviews will better enable ministers and deputy heads not only to compile their individual cost-savings proposals but also to provide practical advice on what to look for and how to execute their plans,” press secretary Heather Hume said in an email.

Now for some serious laughs:

“As always, our government is committed to maintaining an open, fair and transparent procurement process while obtaining the best possible value for Canadians.”

We can has accountability? Oh boy! Where was that fair and transparent procurement process when those problem F35 killing machines were being purchased?

Hume declined to respond to further questions about the review, saying they are “cabinet processes.”

Oops! That didn’t last too long, did it? So much for transparency and accountability.

Yep, boys ‘n’ girls. That was another installment of how austerity is for us, but not for those Harpercons and their corporate friends. Definitely not for firms like Deloitte.

This was also another example of how those Harpercons would probably say they would have to spend money in order to save it. Sad part is that their idiotic cheerleaders will defend this move vehemently, buying this bull shit, hook, line and sinker.

Tugboat Tony will pat continue to pat himself on the back for this coup, all the while, continuing to deflect questions about that unaccounted $50 million G8 spending on very expensive gazebos, glowsticks and port-o-craps.  Perhaps the henchpeople of Deloitte will get one of each as a parting gift.