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Tories can’t hit $2.5 B savings target

Posted on Mon, November 27, 2006 by Registered CommenterColin Nelson | Comments1 Comment | References1 Reference

Tories can’t hit $2.5 B savings target, Ottawa Citizen,Mon Nov 27, by Kathryn May

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No surprise here. I was on the Parliamentary Task Force on Government wide Procurement review that originally, under immense pressure from Public Works DM Marshall, produced these numbers. My role was to represent the views of DND on procurement matters and so I saw first hand exactly how this “target” was set.

In the fall of 2004, then PWGSC Min Scott Brison took what were in reality preliminary WAGS (bureaucratese for wild ass guesses) developed by the Task Force on the possible savings that might accrue from changes to the procurement system and high jacked them for political and personal purposes. He then trumpeted these savings as real to a meeting of the Canadian Club in Toronto. Mr. Brison was trying to ingratiate himself with his new masters and please his boss PM Martin.

The most willing partner in this fraud was I Davis Marshall, DM at PWGSC.

It is therefore most revealing and laughable that in his memo Marshall blames the government for changing tack on the procurement overhaul. Nice try at obfuscation DM!

Here are the facts: with Mr. Brison’s effective elimination of the independent nature of the Parliamentary review, the most important step in the entire renewal process was also terminated. That step was the planned consultation phase with all other government departments. However, there was extensive consultation with the private sector and the uniform worry was that small businesses would lose out to the standing offer model. How right they were.

In place of the needed government wide discussion, I David Marshall instead met very privately with a few select DMs. Recall at the time the Liberal government was desperate to find savings and the heat was on the PS to come up with the goods. So, armed with backing from the Privy Council office, Mr. Marshall’s plan to consolidate all common procurement under PWGSC control was a real trap for other DMs. They could capitulate and hand over the procurement role exclusively to PWGSC, or, they could fight back and try to find their own savings. So, they caved in virtually without a whimper and budgets were cut before the savings appeared. Neat trick but, hey, that’s leadership in Ottawa.

My DND boss at the time, Procurement ADM Alan Williams, is quoted in the article by Kathryn May as assessing the memo from Mr. Marshall this way: “It’s no surprise. We’ve known this would happen from the get-go. And I don’t think they will get what they are promising now if they don’t build a solid foundation, bringing in industry and getting the endorsement of departments and then make them accountable for results.”

The current PWGSC Minister, M Fortier in his appearance before a parliamentary committee suggested the $2.5B was pulled out of “thin air” and that the target setting process was backwards. Yes, it was, but it was backward because of the political machinations of Min Brison and his malleable henchman Mr. Marshall. I guess political diplomacy prevented him from telling us why it was done backward.

As if this failed adventure was not enough, Mr. Marshall also masterminded the contract with the gurus from AT Kearney LTD in an attempt install a ‘reverse auction’ for procurement. Several Citizen articles enlightened readers about this little gem. This contract farce saw an uncompetitive contract balloon in renewals from around a million to $24 million over the next few years. When these two $350,000 per year men missed key meetings in England, Marshall had no choice but to cut them loose. I often wonder just how much Canadian taxpayers had to fork out to end the contract.

Yet in spite of this litany of arrogant mismanagement, we are told that Min Fortier has confidence in his deputy!

Here’s my call: I David Marshall will be allowed to retire within six months. He should be terminated immediately.

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The best way to save money is to firstly fire all of the Alcholics in the civil and public servixes, governments..


For decades I have been writing to news editors, politicians about important issues... and every once a while there come at different peaks significant writings that do have historical effect.. such as this one.. that affected both Ralph Klein's and Paul Martin's political career

"Federal election 2006 Let us all face it the Liberals are clearly not to be trusted. Like the Conservatives the NDP, BQ are on the right track in regard to cleaning up the Liberal corruptions. We may see the next Canadian Government begin a coalition of Conservatives and NDP instead of the NDP and Liberals. They already proved they can work together. The Liberal Federal Government already have faced the controversy even over the unethical, non official registry of their members of Parliament, Ministers as lobbyists, and their some what disturbingly too close ties between the money making lobbyists and the final Liberal government agendas... The Liberals they cannot be trusted it seems to run an honest government. All Canadians have even already been let down by the past "great achievements" promised of a government led by Prime Minister Paul Martin and most they do want a change, a deserved clean honest Government, not more Liberal lies and false promises.....

The Liberal Paul Martin as the new Prime Minister of Canada came to office promising a more mature relationship with the Americans but he worked towards rather a deterioration in the relationship with the US since Paul martin had came into power in 2003.This week an angry Bush administration official demanded and received a meeting with Canadian ambassador Frank McKenna to complain about Prime Minister Paul Martin's attacks on U.S. environmental policy, U.S. sources say. Paul Martin accused the Americans earlier this week of being deaf to global opinion on the need to sign the Kyoto Protocol. The White House took Paul Martin's rebuke as cheap electioneering during the campaign leading to the Jan. 23 vote, the sources said. Their meeting with McKenna took place earlier this week in Washington.

-Paul Martin has not resolved with the US the mad cow US sales restrictions
-and he Paul Martin has not been able to obtain a negotiated settlement for the US Lumber trade dispute..
-and he Paul Martin has not been able to deal with the every increasing US border travel resitrictions
-amongst many other issues with the US too..

so much for the too often lying Liberal promises, and the reality bites back.. And the Liberal team are clearly are caught spin doctoring again with the income trust affair.. the unacceptable alleged budget leak..

Prime Minister Paul Martin looks at a red wine while visiting a winery in Beamsville, Ont. Sunday. Mind you this is not what real Professing Christians tend to do especially on Sunday.. and this is not a rare occasion for the PM Paul Martin who has been giving out free beer too it seems.. as I have detailed here elsewhere too.. But Paul Martin the PM is still too often associated with alcoholic beer, he and his party members too... Liberal party workers, members have pizza and beer parties too. The New Liberals- more Alcoholics at the taxpayer's expenses too. Unacceptable. and next the PM Paul Martin will likely like Premier Ralph Klein try to say he is not an alcoholic, he like Premier Ralph Klein only encourages beer drinking and drink beer too often cause this is another Canadian value.. even the related drunk driving.. the too often stingy, unimpassioned of others abusive behavior of alcoholics, plus the permanent brain damage alcohol causes. Alocholics are known to be liars, they often even lie to themselves and others often saying even they are not alcoholics too. You still can tell if they are aloholics by what they do and who their good Friends are.You can still tell who they are for they like to be around other alcoholics, and now also by the amount of alcohol they do like to have or to even have even around them. They also do like to have and to be often around plenty of beer and alcohol. Klein was known to be a regular drinker in a tavern in Calgary when he worked as a reporter before becoming the Premier.. for that is his regular church of prayer..

"Beamsville, Ont. — One of Paul Martin's top aides apologized to Canadian parents yesterday after saying on national television that they would buy popcorn and beer with the money the Conservatives are offering for child care. The Conservatives rolled out a child-care plan last week that would give parents of preschool children an annual $1,200 per child to spend as they see fit Scott Reid, Mr. Martin's communications director, tried to explain on CBC News: Sunday the difference between that approach -- which he broke down to $25 a week -- and the Liberal plan to establish a national child-care system. "Working families need care," he said. "They need care that is regulated, safe and secure and that's what we're building here. Don't give people $25 a week to blow on beer and popcorn. Give them child-care spaces that work.""

Reid's apology doesn't change the Liberal policy on daycare, which fails to respect parents' choices and trust them to decide what's best for their kids His comment was not just a "slip of the tongue" but a reflection of a long pattern of Liberal attitude that devalues parents' choices, Kate Tennier, founder of Advocates for Childcare Choice, said she was appalled by Reid's comments and said they shows "Paul Martin appears to agree with this rather scary notion of government intrusion into Canadian family life," she said." How really scary!" About 13% of the nation’s children receive daycare from government-sanctioned providers, while the other 87% either receive care from a stay-at-home parent, a relative, or an unlicensed daycare provider who are left out by the Liberals.

How appropriate this would occur while Paul Martin was on a Sunday at a wine factory.. The Liberals aid that the Parent's can't be trusted to handle the tax payer's money and what only the Liberals can? Real Liberal Rubbish. We all do from real experiences too already do know how Liberal cannot be trusted with our taxpayer's money and that they wrongfully even buy beer, wine, Martinis, alcohol with it too. All of this was, is just more Liberal hypocrisy!

Not only is any cheating, lying, stealing, tax payer's money abuses is unacceptable also for any civil, public servant, elected representatives, not even for one of them, and no matter what political party they may support too, it is also always inappropriate, unethical, immoral to use one cent of the taxpayer's money on booze, alcohol as well at any time and anywhere now too.

Since we normal persons already tend to know the negative effect of Alcoholism.. Let me be also very clear about it too, I am rightfully against any brain damaged or not alcoholics having any position, job in governments, the civil, public services, rather they should all be fired immediately rather and that includes any Prime Minister, Premier, Member of Parliament or their staff members

This may be the season for some to be jolly with booze, drugs but keep it all, all out of politics, the governments.

EDMONTON (CP) - Ralph Klein says he wouldn't be Alberta's premier today and he could be dead by now if he'd kept up his heavy drinking. The premier swore off the bottle in 2001 after a night on the town which ended with him swearing at men at a homeless shelter and throwing money at them. But in year-end media interviews this week he acknowledged he continues to have the odd drink. "I probably would have died of liver disease," Klein said in one such interview with The Canadian Press. "It's not only unhealthy, but it's politically unhealthy. Mentally unhealthy." Klein conceded he has had a few drinks in the last year, but there have been differing accounts of how often and how much. After his encounter at the homeless shelter, Klein admitted that boozing had taken a toll on his ability to carry out his duties as premier. "I do know I have a problem, and I do know I'm going to deal with it," he said at the time as tears rolled down his cheeks. "I am going to go as long as I possibly can and hopefully end this journey without having another drink . . . one day at a time." Klein also said then that he had considered resigning. "When you get up and you are feeling rotten and you wonder, 'Gee, I feel this badly, do I really want to get on and do the work of the day,' you bring yourself around to do it, but it is a lot better to do it with an absolutely clear head." Klein admitted he drank the equivalent of a bottle of wine every day." this is all true? you really believe him??? His decades of alcohol did not cause any brain damage now too? How come also very few other people can give up drinking alcoholic that easy now too? His still often odd behavior, emotional outburst is not associated with his alcohol problem?

Can you really believe as the truth what most of these too many still too alcoholic politicians say to us these days too??""

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I rightfully do not show false partialities to any person, office, organization, denomination, leader, individual, groups etc..,

(Rev 3:19 KJV) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

(1 Tim 5:20 KJV) Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear. 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality. 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure.

Clearly there is the public disgust for both Prime Ministers , the Conservative Brian Mulroney and Liberal PM Paul Martin and it was also definitely related to their alcoholism, which had destroyed their sensitivity to needs of others.. like it did also for premier Ralph Klein too.. thus the public really despises the deeds, the placement of the alcoholics in the government, into political office.. not one cent of tax payer's money should be used for any alcoholic entertainment, expenses by an civil or public servant, politicians, and all the Alcoholics in the government, civil and public services who refused treatment should be fired immediately.

After two years as PM, he still blames all his problems on the previous government, he distorts facts and blames "bureaucrats" for his inability to manage government agencies (note his war with Elections Canada and his blaming of the isotope shortage on the CNSC).

If you first do get rid of most of the lawyers in parliament, and in the senate clearly it would be a great improvement for a start and even Stephen Harper would agree with this..

COLIN KENNY, Freelance says " My friend and fellow senator Hugh Segal wants to hold a national referendum to determine what the Canadian people want to do with the Senate of Canada. I do not. For a start, I think the current government is using the whole issue of Senate reform to serve as a distraction from issues that are truly important to Canadians. Furthermore, it makes no sense to approach the complexities of constitutional change with a tool as simplistic as a referendum.

The question "What kind of Parliament do Canadians want?" Can simply be answered an honest one.. fire , get rid of all those much too many liars, thieves, impostors, pretenders, alcoholics in the Civil and public services right now, and even in the new Conservative government now too. ASAP

Members of the Commons tend to fall into two camps: the people who have power to make changes,besides the news media, the bosses (cabinet ministers, parliamentary secretaries and committee chairs) and the too often powerless backbench MPs, most of whose time should taken up performing chores for constituents but as many found out too many of the lected officals still do use they use their facilites, staff too to promote their own poltical party and to get relected.. Would next an elected Senate be any better for these issues? Why would they be nopw really any better than the elected MPs? One has to fire, to get rid of all the deadbeats in the senate and in parliament, civil and public servcies too, firstly always.. and no one is realy still doing this now, not even Stephen Harper.

So why is the current federal government so fixated on the Senate? First, it distracts Canadians from the real fact they the new Conservatives have not lived up to their main 5 original promises now too.. for they even keep on hiring friends for the good paying political jobs.. who likely even still use their new found jobs to help the new Conservatives get reelected , and all wrongfully paid for by the taxpayers wrongly still too. I also do know that my local MP Ex prime Minister Paul martin MP is really useless and should have been also fired a long time ago as well.



For decades I have been writing to news editors, politicians about important issues... and every once a while there come at different peaks significant writings that do have historical effect.. such as this one.. that affected the news editors writing about bad Pastors in Canada..

50% of Sermons Are Not Biblical http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/archives/2006/02/_50_of_modern_s.php "Preaching the Gospel is not acceptable to living it. All pastors still do need to read the Bible for one hour a day at least, and pray for one hour a day at least. Almost 80 % of them do not. At least 50 percent of Church and TV, Internet sermons thus are unbiblical because most pastors do not use or read the Bible itself. Great, big Church pastors even steal their sermons from others as I have witnessed firsthand too. I interviewed personally 45 evangelical pastors in one city, Calgary Alberta, and none of them even used the Bible in their counseling ministry with their members and adherents. We have too many impostors, hirelings in the Ministry, bad persons not directly called by God to minister and that is why they also do cheat, lie, steal, commit adultery, tax evasions and abuse others, slander as well. Posted by: Paul Kambulow at April 16, 2006

Now the supposedly Pentecostal liars of the TCAF a "family run and owned" religious nonprofit Corporations/organizations/ministries dos still need to seriously repent of their lies and slanders and apologize for them for Walter Kambulow had never been kicked out from the Lasalle trinity Pentecostal church as they have claimed and the same bad Ontario pastors next even had bashed me for being divorced.. Unacceptable Do have the Ontario human rights commission prosecute them all for this too.

Sunday December 16, 2007
To the Prime Minster of Canada Stephen Harper

Hey I admit it to you all that my own twin brother Walter was the one who had taught me on now to deal with the crooks in Canada.. Public exposure and prosecution of the guilty serves everyone's best interest now also by writing letters... and he also said if I was being wrongfully abused I shout loudly shout rape so all can know about it too. Now my brother is also another bad unacceptable abuser, I do know that firsthand he robbed me, abused me, lied about me and slandered me etc..

But when I see my brother Walter now using terms like Rape in his posts.. someone has really wrongfully abused him and I too would like to know who they are.. and what is rightfully being done about it too.

Now you already do know about the past Calgary Christian center church, run by clearly the bad no good, slandering, thieving pastor David lagore, and family a Canadian Pentecostal “family run and owned” religious nonprofit church Corporation, organization, ministry as I had witnessed , detailed to the news media and the federal government too, that was investigated by the federal Government and others also and it's incorporation was rightfully removed by the federal government too. So I am not surprised by these new allegations my brother now makes against the same Pentecostals groups, even the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.. Most people who attend an evangelical church and donate money to it do rightfully think it is a congregational church, owned and run by the members of the church and not shockingly to find next rather it is a dictatorial, one many ministry owned by the pastor himself.. a fact generally not disclosed or advertised to the donators.. so there is not real accountability of the bad pastor's acts next as well.

"Why is it that permissible for prominent Pentecostal Pastors such as TACF’s John Arnott and Steve Long to make and publish proven lies about a private individual and stranger Mr. Kambulow, a man of integrity, including:

- Walter is as bad as they come ( as bad as his accusers? maybe more like it)
-He has been disciplined by several churches in his past for rebellion and blames every and all churches he has every been a part of. ( this is a lie.. Walter has been disciplined in one church and forced to resign in another the FGBMFI )
-The way that he slanders his wife in public is horrendous. ( Walter does not slander his wife Sandy in Public, the reference should be rather to my rightfully complaint how my own bad immoral, adulterous wife Norma Florence Kambulow who firstly has lied about me unsubstantiated in all of her divorce applications and you all have a copy of those letters of my complaints now too already.)
-and if he had been a part of our church, which he wasn't; I would be all over for him for slander. ;
-He is not a part of our church so we are not responding to him-
-He was a former member of TACF ( Neither he or i was)
-He is divorced ( he is not rather his twin Brother Paul is the one divorced)

Since when is this lying and slandering about us by the church pastors still permissible ?"

Hey this is unacceptable fact to too many people have confused me and my twin brother and next even have wrongfully slandered about us in churches for the last 40 years.. starting with the clearly bad Christians at Bethel Baptist Church in Vile St. Lauren Quebec, next the bad Christians at the Calgary Christian Center.. where I was told I had been removed from being a member of the church, and yet I was never a member of it. I just lived across the street from it and attending it .. yes my own personally experiencing with too many bad evangelical pastors in Canada is they do lie, slander, gossip about me or my brother.. including the pastor at Trinity Pentecostal church Ken Bombay who next repent of it, asked for our forgiveness and we became friends with him.. The bad Pastor Rev Gordon Freeland Bethel Baptist Church had admitted to me that he was upset because he could not divide, or control me and my twin brother.

>>… Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley announced a Senate investigation into whether six televangelists violated their organizations' tax-exempt status by living lavishly on the money small donors had contributed

Me I had next wrote to you as well and have said that all the churches, corporations should be rightfully investigated, even for tax evasions, not just these six..

and yes Walter uses the same approach he taught me to use, he write open letters and posts them openly on the net too.. http://www.richardcleaver.com/?cat=3 and http://cnt10.tripod.com/tblaw.htm

Do deal with this all, rightfully these bad Canadian pastors. Let us all know what you have done about it too.

Yours truly

Paul Kambulow Bachelor of Civil Engineering 1968 Concordia University, Montreal

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