Especially in times of austerity, they want to demonstrate that as much as possible of the taxpayers» hard - earned cash goes directly on «programme» activity (such as health care, teaching, policing) and as little as possible on «administration costs.»
B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts
of sweetheart deals
in a
time of austerity,
especially when the Minister
of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.