Karli Farrow a consultant that has worked with the Mcquinty government since the year 2000, was hired to work on the Ehealth project as a consultant and was paid $10,646 for 32.5 hours over a 3 week period… That’s $330 an hour for not even a full 40 hour work week let alone for 3 weeks. That is a lot of money for “consulting” fees when no work is shown for it. The Ehealth CEO Sarah Kramer received a bonus of $114,000 and soon after had to resign due to the questioning of that bonus. To be honest that is a ridiculous bonus and for what? Basically she lost a billion dollars and got a bonus for it. Her resignation shows that her role as CEO was insignificant and that her bonus was not deserved. More supervision should have been present to ensure that the Ehealth project would stay on track.
Among the bonus's and large payouts many untendered contracts were given. The amount of money that dealt with the untendered contracts was close to 16 million dollars. That’s not the best part.. it appears that these untendered contracts were given to companies that the opposition parties say have ties to the Liberal party. Now this isn't a proven fact it may be the other parties trying to make the Liberals look bad, however at this point it certainly seems believable. From the following information it is becoming clear that the Liberal party took advantage of the Ehealth project. In my opinion Mcquinty is not doing a good job at all. With the OLG scandal and the Ehealth scandal it is obvious that his role as a premier is inadequate.
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/ehealth/article/706648--ehealth-scandal-claims-health-minister
I found it interesting that the premier continued to back up these key players, namely Kramer and Ontario's Health Minister David Caplan, even after the public became aware of their utter stupidity. He proceeded to 'turn his head' as if nothing happened. So much for tax payers hard earned money.
ReplyDeleteAs for Kramer, clearly her bonus was for the 'effort' she put into eHealth.