Taxpayers' aid for Scrooge McDuck

With public agencies and public employees like at LAO, no wonder Ontario had to close shop on Fridays once upon a time. Some sections of that province haven't learned their lesson though.

Legal Aid Ontario squandered over a million of taxpayers' dollars helping defend a millionaire murderer. Both CBC and CTV report on it (and countless other media that don't come into my RSS, yet).

Thankfully someone is giving them the rap they deserve, so kudos to the Ontario Ombudsman for identifying the leaks and giving both LAO and the province the instructions to fix them. The ease with which Ontarians have been cheated out of a million beggars belief, as does the pervasive carelessness and lack of monitoring that go on whenever public money is spent.

Dirty tricks and negligence cannot go unpunished, thus as much as recovering part of the money LAO should ensure that those responsible for this bungle get nowhere close to a taxpayer's dollar again.