The ORNGE scandal ... A fiasco within a scandal!

It is enough to boggle the imagination! Hundreds of millions of dollars squandered by high flying bureaucrats running amok without any apparent accountability--not even to the provincial auditor.


Here is a list of scandalous activity so far.

For the last four months, an all-party provincial probe has heard of CEO Dr. Chris Mazza’s reign at ORNGE including the promotion of his water-ski instructor girlfriend to associate vice-president, of a Porsche-driving board chair who pocketed $200,000 in compensation, of a senior employee with drug problems and another who was told to fake an MBA because it would impress investors.

Then there were the dreams and schemes of now-defunct ORNGE spinoff companies, lavish business trips, a $6.7-million marketing services agreement that is being investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police, and a $275-million “bond issue” to pay for a fleet of helicopters and office space.

Throw in a speedboat, a law firm that billed 22,000 hours and a couple of customized orange motorcycles and you’ve got the latest scandal of an agency that seemed to fly off the government’s radar. Tanya Talaga, Toronto Star.

And yet the McGuinty administration goes acts as nothing untoward has taken place at all.

I mean, whats a few hundred million?