When Government buys insurance for anything it is stupid

[BitWhys]

what IS the difference, Jay?

 

[iamcanadian]

The public sector belongs to the PUBLIC. The Private Sector is their own damned business.

The People are helpless against the government and public sector. People can choose what they deal with or not in the private sector.

When the private sector takes adavantage, that's business. When the public sector takes advantage that's rape and child molestation of an innocent public that must put up and pay by force.

Senior Controlling Public Administrators in Canada are mostly all corrupt and the few that are not are just as bad, if not worse, for letting the corrupt ones get away with everything and anything.

Hard work? What hard work are you talking about? Theirs are the cushiest jobs in the Country that can't be lost no matter what. They should be thanking us for putting up with them.

 

[sanch]

A big difference is that if your personal information is mismanaged or lost by the private sector you can seek damages of up to $25, 000 per instance. If the government loses it there might be a mention in a report to parliament but you are entitled to no damages. Thus there is an incentive to manage private info properly in the private sector that does not exist in the public sector.

If a manager was caught hiring relatives who had no qualifications for a job in the private sector that manager would be sacked. In the Canadian civil service there is no penalty for hiring relatives and friends and this is why they represent more than 50% of all employees. There would be heads rolling in any private corporation if this type of nepotism were detected. It is considered the norm in the civil service though.

An interesting read is Karl Wittfogel’s Oriental Despotism where in China centuries ago groups tried to ensure access to irrigation waters by appointing administrators to oversee them. This class soon became despotic and rather than act on behalf of the people they started to act in their own self-interest. Hence the need of oversight, transparency and accountability in government. This is something Bill Graham used to preach to developing countries as the foundation of democracy. Too bad the Liberals did not see the need for such a foundation in Canada. Read the Gomery Report and compare it to say Graham's speech last year in Cancun where he told Afrcian nations pretty much want Gomey said are reforms that are needed in Canada. It's embarassing.

Of course most corporations in Canada are quasi crown corporations so I can understand how people would see that there is no difference between the public and private sector.