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Entire Civil Service should be investigated : Auditor General

edit Little Tobacco 2006-11-29 12:45 UTC add comment  ·  ·  ·  ·  ·

The Auditor General, Shelia Frazser has asked the RCMP to investigate CFL Hall Of Famer and former Ombudsman for Federal Prisoners, Ron Stewart,  for spending abuse, etc. Via Bourque, canada.com is reporting:

On top of his clearly identified spending abuses, Stewart billed for another $127,000 in questionable payments for cashing out vacation that he claimed he never took, despite spending the majority of each summer, from April until October, at his cottage, located on an Ontario island about 90 minutes from Ottawa, which was accessible only by boat and had no electricity or land telephone line.

Although Stewart had a government cell phone, he was seldom reachable and his days on the island produced virtually nothing in the way of work, the report said.
(Emphasis mine: LT)

If being seldom reachable and producing virtually nothing in the way of work is the standard for an RCMP investigation, then I suspect that a majority of the Federal, Provincial and Municipal civil services should be under investigation. Pick up your phone, randomly call the number of a civil servant and odds are you are getting voice mail.

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