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"We can't allow things that are inaccurate to stand." — The Word of Our Dan, February 19, 2008.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Funny Munny, 2007 edition

From the 2007 Newfoundland and Labrador provincial budget:

This is the second year running in which the provincial government voted itself federal revenues which the Parliament of Canada has not. (The 2006/07 Revised column shows that last year's budget line item was pure fiction.)

This imaginary $7.5-million in federal revenue for the Trans-Labrador Highway, on its own, accounts for 10% of the projected provincial surplus for the fiscal year just ended. The books are being balanced, in part, with imaginary funds.

So, again, how, legally and constutionally, does the provincial government get off voting itself $7.5-million in money that is not only not theirs, but which doesn't even exist?

Does the Auditor-General know? Or care?

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