COVID-19 spending sin is not Justin Trudeau’s alone – it’s every government’s
, which analyzed more than 600 instances of government failure from AG reports between 1988 and 2013, covering multiple federal governments. One example was the 2001 heating expense relief program, which aimed to provide financial assistance to low-income Canadians to offset higher energy costs using the existing GST credit system. The AG found that less than one-quarter of the $1.5-billion spent went to low-income families facing emergency heating costs, and that up to one million of the 7.
Or consider a 1998 report examining the integrity of Canada’s social insurance number system, which is the basis for government payments to individuals. The report found that more than 50 per cent of SINs had no supporting documentation, that the registry had 12 million uncertified SIN accounts and that there were 3.8 million more SINs for Canadians 20 years of age and older than there were people. The potential for fraud is obviously significant.
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