Civil servants spent $168,000 on booze

its hard to read something like that and not get pissed off.

I'm just shocked it wasn't a LOT more

How much did the last government spend? Where's the perspective?

Why stop at the last government?

Let's go back all the way to Confederation and then we can really find out which party is the bigger bunch of drunks...

It's time for the CURRENT government to accept responsibility instead of always trying to turn back the clock and look at what their predecessors did or didn't do.

Then why are the numbers for the budget important?
Surely the last government's budget can have no relationship to the current one.
Talk about wanting it both ways.

Ya know what RR? It doesn't really matter. They BOTH do it. The perspective is, they are all fucking parasites sucking at the teat of the Canadian taxpayer.
The amount has little to do with the morality or ethics of it. Once they step over that line, does it matter?

You should be pissed off ANYBODY did it instead of questioning how much the Liberals spent doing the same thing.

Sorry about the rant RR, this just pisses me off to no end. There's no spin to this and no amount of spin that's going to change the fact that this is just business as usual at the federal and I'm quite sure, provincial levels of gov't.

There is no context here. It says this was over hundreds of departments but does not give a head count. This is a hatchet peice.

It's just another "Desperate Liberal brand -Scandel of the day".

My God man, what difference does that make. Waste is waste no matter which government or party is inebriated on abusing it

Congratulations on having written the singular response to a topic that was enough to make me sign up to respond to it.

You've lured me in.


Welcome comrade. Next we'll hear that the chocolate rations are down too.

$168,00 is peanuts. I'm surprsied it's so low. Diplomats spend a lot; at least they used to. I used to know an ex-ambassador at my local and he said that they have to serve Canadian food and beer at their functions. I doubt very much if the civil servants are the ones drinking it--at least not the rank and file folks. Most times that I go to a meeting held by civil servants, they don't even provide coffee.

Accroding to wiki there's about 450,000 civil servants in Canada. For comparisons sake, if you bought each of them one coffee once a year that would be about five times this amount spent on booze.

Don't sweat teh petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

But did they buy booze?

"$168,000 on Booze"

Sounds like the month I spent in Fort McMurry.

And I bet you STILL couldn't drink to the point where Fort McMurry looked good

Probably. Every embassy function I went to in Japan (two or three) had either Molsons or Labatts, as well as a Canadian Rye for those who wanted a whiskey.