Sentences with phrase «weak government oversight»

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Earlier this year the Auditor General slammed the Christy Clark government for its weak oversight of the mining industry, and failure to properly monitor Mount Polley before the disaster.

Other rules that contribute to weak parliamentary oversight of the government are the strict anti-defection law and the precedent of not putting private member bills to vote.

Weak oversight and a lack of transparency is not limited to the legislative branch; it extends through much of state government, including a Board of Elections hobbled by politics and understaffing and a procurement process that critics say does little to prevent fraud and corruption.

Critics who have argued that the government's flagship free school policy has suffered from weak oversight have been given further ammunition as an investigation into a pioneering free school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, found an alleged trail of misused funds, unexplained invoices and improper payments.

All others are on their own and must out of necessity, resort to the consumer already incapable of paying his bills as they become due; too often resulting in debt pooling fraud as demonstrated in Province Newspaper's 2014 Don Antle debt pooling investigation and reporting, which connected debt pooling fraud to weak provincial government (gov» t) regulation and oversight.