This entry is not about procurement or supply chain. It is actually about deceit and misdirection.
In today's Toronto Star, there is an article about civil servant salaries that made me believe that the current provincial mandarins should be put in the "Dr. Phil House" to understand what is meant to be truthful and above all open with the constituency it is serving -- the taxpayers.
The article, entitled Bureaucrats skirt rules to hide huge salaries speaks to salaries being paid to high ranking civil servants that are significantly outside the agreed to bandwidth for the positions that are held by these individuals. But beyond being outside the bandwidth, the government chose to pay them in a circuitous manner, not out of the budgets in the ministries for which they work, but through another almost hidden methodology, that quite honestly looks like minions skulking behind closed doors figuring out how they can pull the wool over those that the government serves.
The reason given? Well we have to be competitive to attract top talent. OK, I don't necessarily dispute this, yet there are three factors that I think are quite important to consider here.
In today's Toronto Star, there is an article about civil servant salaries that made me believe that the current provincial mandarins should be put in the "Dr. Phil House" to understand what is meant to be truthful and above all open with the constituency it is serving -- the taxpayers.
The article, entitled Bureaucrats skirt rules to hide huge salaries speaks to salaries being paid to high ranking civil servants that are significantly outside the agreed to bandwidth for the positions that are held by these individuals. But beyond being outside the bandwidth, the government chose to pay them in a circuitous manner, not out of the budgets in the ministries for which they work, but through another almost hidden methodology, that quite honestly looks like minions skulking behind closed doors figuring out how they can pull the wool over those that the government serves.
The reason given? Well we have to be competitive to attract top talent. OK, I don't necessarily dispute this, yet there are three factors that I think are quite important to consider here.
- Firstly, if it is the case that the salaries are too low to attract "top talent", then why isn't the entire salary grid being reviewed to ensure that this is the case across the board, or is the "top talent" only those who have been deemed to be anointed by the politicos.
- Secondly, again, if the attraction of "top talent" is true, then why try to hide it? Why not put it out front that these people are worth the money being spent on them and they more than earn their keep? In my experience, people try to hide things that they can't defend.
- Thirdly, government workers have pensions the like of which private sector employees don't have. So, when trying to "attract top talent" isn't this a selling feature?
So perhaps 
we can get the Premier and all the cabinet ministers into the Dr. Phil house and see if the he can get to the underlying reasons for the intense deception that has become the norm vs. the exception in the corridors of the Ontario government.
The recent movie The Invention of Lying is probably used in training videos for the political mandarins....but they have moved well beyond the inventing stage. From what I can see they will be starring in an upcoming movie ... The Masters of Lying.
we can get the Premier and all the cabinet ministers into the Dr. Phil house and see if the he can get to the underlying reasons for the intense deception that has become the norm vs. the exception in the corridors of the Ontario government.The recent movie The Invention of Lying is probably used in training videos for the political mandarins....but they have moved well beyond the inventing stage. From what I can see they will be starring in an upcoming movie ... The Masters of Lying.
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