After the public fury regarding the decision of the Board of Internal Economy for not permitting Auditor-General Sheila Fraser to carry out a parliamentary performance audit, the federal politicians seem to be waking up.
After weeks of opposition from public, the Conservatives recently announced that a proposal will be prepared for allowing Ms. Fraser to conduct the audit.
The proposed plan will be presented to the Board this week.
But the members of the houses have been behaving in an offensive manner since past few weeks.
The Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats have been handling angry voters with a long repetitive list of excuses and have been trying to disgracefully justify the Board's position.
The sole supporter of the request of audit was Bloc Quebecois; this resulted in making the separatist party a “champion of the Canadian taxpayer”.
Addressing the CTV last week, Minister Jason Kenney also said in tune with everybody that Board's negative response resulted from a misinterpretation of the goals and territory of Ms. Fraser's audit.
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff's initially stated, "There is accountability that is in itself a waste of public money. Do you understand what I am saying?"
But just a day after this, Ignatieff gave an utterly contradictory statement saying now that he is "entirely in favor" of Ms. Fraser. He also verified that Parliament's financial controls are accurate and apt and it is rightly serving the Canadians.
All this made voters angry as even they want a transparent and fair Governmental functioning.
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