[Newsbot]

Title: Bankrupt Arc Productions off the hook for $23-million Ontario job-creation grant
Category: Provincial Politics
Posted By: shockedcanadian
Date: 2016-08-05 17:53:08
Canadian

[shockedcanadian]

This is why responsible governments dont dole out taxpayer money to friends, pals, acquaintances and those who do a song and dance for the money. Ontario government is bankrupting future generations who have no say in this theft.

Of course, we know what the OPP do with their spare time, it sure isn't protecting the Ontario taxpayer from these crooks.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Arc Industries has been around for decades. They provided a great service helping give special needs people a sense of accomplishment and for a some, a level of independence.
I learned about their demise a couple of months ago when I was looking at getting my step-son in there to give him some structure in his life as well as a place he can feel he's accomplishing something and meet other special needs people as he's often too shy to interact with, for lack of a better term, "regular people".

[shockedcanadian]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Arc Industries has been around for decades. They provided a great service helping give special needs people a sense of accomplishment and for a some, a level of independence.
I learned about their demise a couple of months ago when I was looking at getting my step-son in there to give him some structure in his life as well as a place he can feel he's accomplishing something and meet other special needs people as he's often too shy to interact with, for lack of a better term, "regular people".

Fair enough. Doesn't change any of the facts regarding how this money was used. From the article it appears to be a business quite different from what you describe:

A Toronto movie and TV animation company that abruptly closed this week — leaving more than 500 jobless — won’t have to repay a $23-million Ontario government grant it got in a splashy photo op with Sir Elton John in 2009....

In her annual report last December, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk flagged $1.45 billion in business assistance funding since 2004, with 80 per cent awarded in a secret process by invitation only to certain companies, raising questions about why they were chosen.

She found some companies got funding “despite evidence they would have proceeded without government help.”

It's called theft and crony capitalism, you can be absolutely sure of this, which is why they operate in secrecy. Quite telling that the feckless clowns at the OPP couldn't care less, as long as they continue to put their noses in the trough, all is ok.


My hope is that future generations organize and sue the government for the abuses for which they will be shouldering the burden. Hopefully at that point Canada will be an accountable democracy and some of the crooks can share a cell together. We are watching in real time the demise of this country and the set-up of lost generations going forward.

I suppose misery loves company. Judging by the recent job numbers, there are a great number of freshly unemployed Canadians I can commiserate with.