London Free Press: Ottawa has a new $1-billion boondoggle on its hands

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For almost three years, he had been working full-time as a computer consultant on one of many government technology mega-projects centred in Ottawa.

Roughly half of that time, he was living on a sailboat in the Bahamas while the Canadian government continued to pay his full fees for doing precisely nothing.

Like many of his fellow contractors, he had to be paid full pop during work stoppages and other delays caused by their government client's redesigning the project, upgrading the technology specifications, and generally doing the meddlesome things bureaucrats do.

Those down-times were so frequent and prolonged that he finally decided better to get paid sailing the Caribbean than sitting around Ottawa doing nothing at full pay.

So diligent were those entrusted with the prudent spending of Canadian tax dollars that he boasted the feds were actually sending his paycheques to his boat mooring in the Bahamas.

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