ON - “Ombudsman issues report”
Jun 27, 2007 03:00 PM, Robert Benzie, Queen’s Park Bureau Chief
Ontario government agencies and ministries are still “over-promising and under-delivering” to the people who pay their salaries, says provincial Ombudsman Andre Marin.
In his annual report to the Legislature delivered this morning, Marin lamented what he called a troubling trend in government.
“Puffery is antithetical to open and transparent government, corrosive of public trust and even harmful to meaningful democracy,” said the independent watchdog.
Marin singled out for criticism the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, the Family Responsibility Office, the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board, and Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, among others.
