SPRINGWATER NEWS OCTOBER 29-2009

MPP DUNLOP CALLS FOR PUBLIC INQUIRY ON LIBERAL eHEALTH SCANDAL 

There are a number of troubling, unanswered questions from the recent Auditor General’s report that I believe Ontario families deserve answers to. I took the opportunity in the house recently to call for a public inquiry to resolve the many unanswered questions that remain about the serious and potentially criminal abuses of taxpayers’ dollars that occurred with the McGuinty Liberal eHealth scandal.

The Auditor General lacked the mandate and the resources necessary to answer many important questions about a scandal that saw hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars funneled to Liberal friendly consultants through untendered contracts and sweetheart deals.
 
It is clear that Dalton McGuinty’s promises of transparency and accountability can no longer be believed.  This government will not give up its dirty secrets willingly. It is only fair to demand the full and complete truth as to why so much money could disappear while so many Liberal friends and insiders get fat and rich on untendered contracts.

Given the potentially criminal behaviour hinted at in the Auditor General’s report as well as the instances of overt obstruction of the Auditor General’s probe, the Ontario PC Caucus has concluded that only an independent, impartial public inquiry with a full mandate to subpoena testimony and documents will provide the answers the people of Ontario deserve.

An Auditor’s report and a token resignation is not enough. That is why we are calling for a public inquiry into the Liberal eHealth scandal.