Really, James Moore? $15,830 for a grep > out.txt or SQL SELECT? Really?
“Well Gord, where there’s smoke there’s fire.” So said one Parliamentary veteran about Moore’s cost inflation on this file. It seems that we’re onto something. Or, to rephrase, it seems that they’ve been up to something, that there’s evidence in the files, that Ms Pegeot’s up to her neck in it, and that’s why Moore’s not complying with his own Governments Access to Information laws.
But quoting James Moore’s own website; “it is only right that the activities of all those who represent Canadians in Parliament be as open and transparent as possible.” That is, unless its embarrassing to Moore or hobbles his ambitions or frustrates his minions.
Yes, because Microsoft Exchange stores all of its email in flat text files and/or single table SQL databases. (note to the sarcasm-impaired: it doesn’t).
Somewhere a middle sits alone in a bar, crying bitter tears into its gin.
Daniel, you know what I’m saying.
Would it help you if I said, “…to use Identity Finder and search a mail server…”?
When the Bureaucracy plays the “you have to pay our price game” the only recourse is through elected representatives. This applies at the municipal level, where I do have a positive experience. My experience at the Federal level did receive a response through a solution of moving the unresponsive bureaucrat aside. Not so much with the Provincial level.
I do wonder at the Ontario Provincial response. Is the present Provincial Government so beholding to the Public Unions they are unwilling to respond to a citizen’s request.
I do wonder at the Ontario Provincial response. Is the present Provincial Government so beholding to the Public Unions they are unwilling to respond to a citizen’s request.
YES.
I am utterly baffled by our so-called conservative government’s response to this. PS Knight has dug up what appears to be a very corrupt set of cockroaches lurking under the rock that is CSA, and the government appears to want nothing to do with it, stonewalling PS Knight at every turn and hoping they’ll just go away.
What is the political risk of dealing with a rogue regulatory agency like this? What are the Conservatives so afraid of?
Moore is a Joe Clarke type progressive.
James Moore is a whore for the left.
Bullets fired in the direction of the enemy isn’t at – isn’t really productive.
If anyone thinks a politician knows anything about computers, and the capabilities of computers … you are more delusional than they are.
Thank the legions of public servants that spin this nonsense.
I agree ural. Chances are Moore knows nothing about this.
Chances are also that talking to the “public servants” will result in a loop condition.
Going above their head is the Ctrl-C of gov’t interaction.
“Chances are Moore knows nothing about this.”
There isn’t a chance in hell that Moore knows nothing about this. He plays a key part in the evasion.
Meh, – it only took this “big tent” party 12 years to return to the same top-down, secretive creep-fest that Reformers left the party for in the first place.
It is Ottawa and the party system which destroys ethical behavior – corruption is just too damn comfortable for a majority government to pay any more than lip service to reform.
“corruption is just too damn comfortable for a majority government to pay any more than lip service to reform.”
Indeed! However, I think I’ll send the “Renegade Regulator” links off to the NDP and the Liberals in the (faint) hope that they hold Moore’s and Harper’s arses to the fire over this during the upcoming campaign. After all, this has been festering for years under the Conservative watch and they have ample opportunity to take action.
I find it amusing (in a gallows humor sort of way that) that so many commenters here see the obvious agenda driven, insider friendly, bureaucratic maneuvering in select departments, yet relentlessly attack and ridicule those who point out the same sort of behavior in other departments (Health Canada for instance). I sometimes wonder if this selective outrage is just a sad commentary on the human condition, or a complete misunderstanding about who is really in charge in Ottawa (spoiler hint, we don’t vote for them).
By way of validation I suggest any who are curious about my premise shuffle over to the Canadian Council of Chief Executives web page and see who the “gods of the free market” saw fit to retain as their “secretariat staff” to shepherd along the busy CEOs who are trying to turn a profit for their shareholders. Does any one else see a slight over representation of “former” PCO and Industry Canada staffers?
“so many commenters here see the obvious agenda driven, insider friendly, bureaucratic maneuvering in select departments, yet relentlessly attack and ridicule those who point out the same sort of behavior in other departments (Health Canada for instance).”
Gee, I don’t know about that. If you want to come up with an example that Health Canada (or any other government department for that matter) is behaving in the same way as CSA, I’m willing to go out on a limb and say that SDAers would roundly and soundly condemn that agency to the same extent as they revile the CSA.
“who is really in charge in Ottawa (spoiler hint, we don’t vote for them).”
We all know that, and we all know that’s not the way things are supposed to be. And we should rightly hold in contempt any MP or MPP who would pretend otherwise.
I note you failed to comment on the CCOCEOs infiltration. Most of the MPs I know personally aren’t in the game for career suicide. Any who fail to “go along to get along” are fed to the “press”.
As for corruption in various departments, I have personally presented damning confirmation (a memo “released in error” in a response to an ATI request) to two Cabinet Ministers and their staffs on the behavior of a DM. He got promoted…it didn’t turn out quite so well for me.
I look at the knee jerk hatred displayed here toward those who question vaccination. The science on that subject is exactly like the science on AGW. I look at the blind embrace of all things GMO and recognize that many credible studies have demonstrated serious organism disruptions in species with a quicker gestational period than humans.
I see the Pest Management Revue Agency hammer little guys selling beneficial harmless products for water treatment or pond scum clearing and note the competing products pushed all benefit the same corporate clients.
I see rent seeking regulators gouging out their piece of the action off the backs of consumers and small business, with the public whipped into a frenzy of fear over non-existent problems by well funded lobbies in collusion with their corporate benefactors…and most sadly of all I see them cheered on here…of all places. I know as an adult that in politics there is no black or white, only endless variations of gray, but I also know as a human there is right and wrong.
Does anyone find it odd, that all the hours mentioned (27,983 2,633 1,583) in the article, are prime numbers?
Hadn’t thought of that but I’m unclear what the significance might be. Ural, what are you suggesting?
There is a 1 in 862 chance of getting 3 prime numbers in the range of 1000-30000 (3047 primes) – this is when the numbers are randomly picked.
This suggests, that although the numbers might have been randomly picked, they were picked from the list of prime numbers.
My assumptions:
1) No actual “hours needed” calculations have ever been made.
2) The same person or small group are generating these “estimated hours”.
3) Because people are creatures of habit, I suspect others that have made FOI requests from this group are also getting prime number hours.
BTW: The thing I was looking for was the “fudge factor” … a number that people use when making estimates of this nature. Prime numbers don’t have “fudge factors”.
James Moore is the ultimate CINO. Conservative-in-Name-Only…