Let's ask the people who use the system what they think...The additional costs include $15.7 million to hire more IT staff at the ministry and to train social assistance case workers who complained the SAMS program was too complicated and too time consuming for them to use.Now let's ask Liberal Social Assistance Minister Helena Jaczek...
“They’re finding the situation stable, they can rely on it,” said Jaczek. “They’re being relieved of some of the manual tasks they had to do in terms of calculation of benefits and so on.”Anyway, the proof is in the pudding, as they say...
At one point last December, just a month after it went online, SAMS queued up $20 million in overpayments for people living on social assistance.Remember, these are the same people who have gifted us with the highest electricty rates in North America.
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Liberal education minister Liz Sandals says she didn’t ask for receipts or any other proof of payment before agreeing to pay the teachers unions $2.5 million for their bargaining costs. The Ontario education minister just paid what they wanted.Looks like Momma Kathleen will be able to help Justy out with his deficit spending initiative.
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FROM THE COMMENTS:
"It’s great to see Justin is keeping his election promise of spending on 'infrastructure'. He’s starting with 'himself'. His mother Margaret (the new PMO spokesperson?) told CBC, the golden couple won’t be moving into 24 Sussex right away because it needs $10 MILLION dollars of renovations."No surprise here, I guess... Justin's expense account as a director of the Katimavik program would have made Caligula blush.