Amid a political flurry over the latest eHealth Ontario revelations, the Ontario government has released new documents revealing chronic missteps at another health agency.You know anybody who has cancer? Then you should be pissed...
An internal audit of Cancer Care Ontario shows the provincial agency handed out consultant contracts in some of the same questionable ways as eHealth.
It gave consulting firm Accenture Inc. $18.7-million in deals over two years, some in the form of so-called "follow-on" agreements, a practice that allowed them to be added on to current contracts without being opened to bids. The audit found the number of follow-ons "excessive" — with at least 26 recorded.
The original Accenture contract was called into question earlier this week after CBC learned from sources that the company won the bid, despite not making the shortlist, after a senior partner called Sarah Kramer, then in the top information technology job.
Kramer later became CEO of eHealth, and still later resigned under fire. She denied receiving the call in a written statement to CBC News.
Ontario's Auditor-General has directly linked Premier Dalton McGuinty to the hiring of former eHealth Ontario chief executive officer Sarah Kramer, whom he says wielded considerable power and ignored the agency's own policies in doling out lucrative contracts to consultants.**********
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Broten was previously dumped from cabinet after she irked neighbours with plans to tear down an old tree at her Toronto home to make way for a two-storey garage.Yeah, sure... bring 'er back.
I mean, she did such a great job as Environment Minister.
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