"Ontario's auditor general says the provincial labour minister's office has not been using a fair or transparent process to dole out money from a $2.5-billion skills training fund. The Skills Development Fund gives money to organizations for projects that help hire, train or retrain workers and the auditor says Minister David Piccini's office is heavily involved in selecting which applicants get money. Auditor general Shelley Spence says in a report"
"Wednesday that more than half of the projects Piccini's office gave funding to were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against the program's goals and criteria. Those applications received about $742 million over the first five rounds of funding. Spence says that in the first two rounds of funding Piccini's office did not give a documented reason as to why it chose 388 projects that received a total of $479 million. The auditor also found that 64 low- and medium-ranked projects that Piccini's office"
The provincial labour minister's office did not use a fair or transparent process to allocate money from a $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund. The Skills Development Fund provides funding to organizations for projects that hire, train or retrain workers. The minister's office was heavily involved in selecting applicants. More than half of the projects the office funded were ranked by bureaucrats as poor, low or medium against program goals and criteria; those applications received about $742 million over the first five funding rounds. In the first two rounds, the office provided no documented reasons for choosing 388 projects that received $479 million. Sixty-four low- and medium-ranked projects funded by the office had hired registered lobbyists.
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