Harper defends his ersatz budget 'surplus' by admitting that there might have been some government departments that didn't spend all of their budgets but adding that government agencies aren't expected to spend every last dime they're given. Sounds good except it's just another Harper lie.
This item from CBC News last February reveals just how Harper is twisting the truth. It concerns the RCMP's unspent and 'refunded' budget for child pornography investigations.
Canada's national police force Mounties withheld some $10 million in funds earmarked for its National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre and related projects, linchpins of the government's anti-child-pornography agenda.
The cuts, made partly as an RCMP contribution to the government's so-called deficit reduction action plan, have occurred even as the number of child-exploitation tips from the public increase exponentially.
The systematic underfunding is highlighted in a draft report prepared for Public Safety Canada, and obtained through the Access to Information Act.
The document, dated November last year, says the RCMP failed to spend its full $8-million annual budget to catch online child abusers throughout the five-year period ending in 2013.
Maybe there's less kiddie porn. That might account for the savings. Except that's not the case, just the opposite. In 2012 the RCMP received 10,000 tips. By 2015 that had swelled to 40,000 tips a year. The RCMP could have saved money, perhaps by not doing intimidation door calls on behalf of Kinder Morgan but it seems they chose to lighten up on child pornographers instead.
And let's not even get into what they've done to deserving veterans.
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