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The investigations, or unplanned audits, are conducted by the ministry as a result of complaints, collisions, previous audits or observations from officials, MTO told CTV Toronto.
The audits are focused on specific areas of the ministry's contracts, like salting the roads or plowing snow, and are not representative of the contractors’ ongoing performance, MTO spokesperson Bob Nichols said.
If a contractor is found to have failed to comply with part of its contract with the government, the company can face hefty fines.
The ministry provided CTV Toronto with data on fines issued to the private companies responsible for summer and winter maintenance between 2010 and 2015.
The data showed that road maintenance contractors have been fined more than $47 million by the Ontario government over the past five years for failure to provide services.
The government issued fines totalling $425,000 in 2010, and another $892,000 in fines in 2011.
In 2012, the fines totaled $912,000. The next year, the amount of money jumped significantly, when the province issued $6.7 million in fines.
Fines jumped again in 2014, totalling $28 million, then decreased in 2015 with a total of $10 million.
Of the $47,240,000 in fines handed out in five years, only 30 per cent of the money owed has been collected, the ministry said. The government collected $13,830,000 in financial consequences since 2010.
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More than 300 cases of road maintenance failures: audits | CTV Toronto News
The investigations, or unplanned audits, are conducted by the ministry as a result of complaints, collisions, previous audits or observations from officials, MTO told CTV Toronto.
The audits are focused on specific areas of the ministry's contracts, like salting the roads or plowing snow, and are not representative of the contractors’ ongoing performance, MTO spokesperson Bob Nichols said.
If a contractor is found to have failed to comply with part of its contract with the government, the company can face hefty fines.
The ministry provided CTV Toronto with data on fines issued to the private companies responsible for summer and winter maintenance between 2010 and 2015.
The data showed that road maintenance contractors have been fined more than $47 million by the Ontario government over the past five years for failure to provide services.
The government issued fines totalling $425,000 in 2010, and another $892,000 in fines in 2011.
In 2012, the fines totaled $912,000. The next year, the amount of money jumped significantly, when the province issued $6.7 million in fines.
Fines jumped again in 2014, totalling $28 million, then decreased in 2015 with a total of $10 million.
Of the $47,240,000 in fines handed out in five years, only 30 per cent of the money owed has been collected, the ministry said. The government collected $13,830,000 in financial consequences since 2010.
more
More than 300 cases of road maintenance failures: audits | CTV Toronto News
