So if I read your article correctly, tax payer money was allocated for a well intentioned purpose. A document was published to demonstrate transparency but was really more an activity of obfuscation. And we have no results. We haven’t heard back from the schools where these students were to receive their meals? I am completely flummoxed after reading this. Is the information real or accurate? Im not trying to cast shade but all I can come up with is WTF? In a world of awakened treachery and deceit to read that it is being perpetrated in my own backyard and to our northern communities where life is rough enough. One truck one egg farm. Sounds like we messed up the omelette. Help me to understand.
I went back to CanNor’s 2024-25 Departmental Results Report. It says the program “will deliver daily meals to 1,100 Indigenous students at nine Whitehorse schools,” while confirming $170,646 for the van. I would stop short of saying nothing happened or that the wording proves deceit. The record supports a narrower conclusion: the spending is documented, but the meals and other promised results are not measured. That gap is the problem.
Thanks for your reply. I understood the text. I guess I meant in the larger context of how can one van support 1100 students , cost so much, and show no deliverables. I mean if I had done that at work I would have received a conversation, a letter and maybe even dismissal. Agreed that the gap is the problem. How to fix that? Thanks for digging into such matters. It’s important that we know and that a dialogue ensues.
Yes, that is exactly the accountability gap. CanNor’s results report confirms $170,646 for the van, but gives no start date, meal count or measure of the promised expansion. I think the fix is straightforward: funding announcements should state what will be measured and when, then results reports should publish those measures, including missed targets. The report should let us distinguish a worthwhile project still getting started from one that failed to deliver. Here, it does neither. It records the purchase and leaves the public to chase the result.
I think that too many of these reports track the spending, but they do not track the results. Tracking the results should be part of the job of the agency spending the money. And to be honest, the government could use those reports to celebrate successes. Or the opposition to declare "What a waste!". But the people whose money got spent deserve to know either way.
I wish we lived in a country where we didn't have to pretend governments funding food programs for students was a good idea... where citizens weren't taxed into poverty and/or dependency so they could afford to feed their children... And where anyone pointing this out isn't accused of being heartless.
So if I read your article correctly, tax payer money was allocated for a well intentioned purpose. A document was published to demonstrate transparency but was really more an activity of obfuscation. And we have no results. We haven’t heard back from the schools where these students were to receive their meals? I am completely flummoxed after reading this. Is the information real or accurate? Im not trying to cast shade but all I can come up with is WTF? In a world of awakened treachery and deceit to read that it is being perpetrated in my own backyard and to our northern communities where life is rough enough. One truck one egg farm. Sounds like we messed up the omelette. Help me to understand.
I went back to CanNor’s 2024-25 Departmental Results Report. It says the program “will deliver daily meals to 1,100 Indigenous students at nine Whitehorse schools,” while confirming $170,646 for the van. I would stop short of saying nothing happened or that the wording proves deceit. The record supports a narrower conclusion: the spending is documented, but the meals and other promised results are not measured. That gap is the problem.
Oh good! So im not the crazy one expecting some form of accountability. Wholeheartedly agree with you. But sadly we have no loyal opposition.
Thanks for your reply. I understood the text. I guess I meant in the larger context of how can one van support 1100 students , cost so much, and show no deliverables. I mean if I had done that at work I would have received a conversation, a letter and maybe even dismissal. Agreed that the gap is the problem. How to fix that? Thanks for digging into such matters. It’s important that we know and that a dialogue ensues.
Yes, that is exactly the accountability gap. CanNor’s results report confirms $170,646 for the van, but gives no start date, meal count or measure of the promised expansion. I think the fix is straightforward: funding announcements should state what will be measured and when, then results reports should publish those measures, including missed targets. The report should let us distinguish a worthwhile project still getting started from one that failed to deliver. Here, it does neither. It records the purchase and leaves the public to chase the result.
I think that too many of these reports track the spending, but they do not track the results. Tracking the results should be part of the job of the agency spending the money. And to be honest, the government could use those reports to celebrate successes. Or the opposition to declare "What a waste!". But the people whose money got spent deserve to know either way.
I wish we lived in a country where we didn't have to pretend governments funding food programs for students was a good idea... where citizens weren't taxed into poverty and/or dependency so they could afford to feed their children... And where anyone pointing this out isn't accused of being heartless.