Not sure it is the best for Ontario taxpayers, though.
If you have been following the news here in Ontario, you will know that the government, in its deep wisdom, is relocating some privately-owned Service Ontario sites to Staples. Now, not only will you be able to renew your OHIP card, but you can also pick up that new printer, computer or tablet you didn't know you needed!
The following clips shows reporters, one from City News (Richard Southern) and the other from CHCH (Laverne McGee), asking Business Service Delivery Minister Todd McCarthy some hard questions about the selection criteria for this sole-source contract and the costs to the taxpayer of this new 'synergy'.
If you click on this link, you will see Laverne McGee do a slow, sly walk to the back of the store to show where the service is located. Hard to resist all of the merchandise blandishments on the way, I imagine.
I do like it when reporters serve as more than stooges for government announcements.
Doug Ford, Premier of the United Companies of Shoppers Drug Mart and Staples.
ReplyDeleteJust another one of those exciting synergies, Anon.
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