Fire the whole lot

January 8, 2014 · 0 Comments

Dear editor:

What is going on at the Ontario Legislature buildings at Queen’s Park in Toronto?

Another report and more revelations about ridiculously high wages, benefits and bonuses. This time it is the Ontario Power Corporation. We’ve had other stories from the Ontario auditor which makes all citizens of our province wonder if there is any accountability either in the crown corporation or the offices that surround the Legislation.

I think the men and women wanting, and getting, the top-paid jobs know there is a delay in reporting on the massive wages paid to them. The Ontario auditor has a huge job and it can be months or years before he or she sits down in front of the press corps to tell us the bad news.

It is always bad news! Year after year, we’ve been told the same stories of exorbitant wages, tax-money wasted on government projects and no accountability within the halls of power of the Ontario governmental bureaucracy.

Is there an understanding between provincial employees whether at the crown corporations or in the corridors at the red-stone building to hide the massive wages and let the auditor sort it out later? Of course, by then the over-paid employees are deep into the lucrative system.

The most galling aspect that the Ontario taxpayer has to deal with is strident denials of the ministers in the Ontario government. According to them, they didn’t have a clue about the ridiculously high wages and benefits that have been paid!

If that’s the case, then why are they a minister of ‘whatever’ in the first place? The biggest joke of all (wasting our money is hardly a joke – but) is the fact some of the wages paid to the ‘fat cats’ are doable what the minister of ‘whatever’ may be getting. He or she must be envious.

Our province is over thirty billion in debt and the just-removed head of the organizing committee of the Pan–Am Games (another boondoggle) could be receiving a million in severance. Ouch!

Let’s just fire the lot; we couldn’t be any worse off!

Vaughan G. Harris,

Tottenham