Flaherty acknowledges untendered contract broke rules

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OTTAWA — Finance Minister Jim Flaherty acknowledged Monday his office broke contracting rules by awarding a contract to a one-time speechwriter for former-Ontario premier Mike Harris.

Treasury Board guidelines require multiple bids for contracts over $25,000.

But Mr. Flaherty handed an untendered contract worth more than $122,000 to Hugh MacPhie to work on last year's budget speech.

Mr. MacPhie's company “provided good value for money, I can assure taxpayers of that,” Mr. Flaherty told the House.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080204.wflaherty0204/BNStory/National/home
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In other words - "Sure I broke the law, but trust me anyway."

[Hand]

1. Seems to be the new meme, all right.

Steve tried to pull the same one with Soudas last week--plus his bizarre stuff about anti-Greek prejudice.

This ship's going down! :woohoo: