Ontario has handed out over more than $80 million dollars of the public’s money to teacher’s unions since the year 2000 with no accountability apparently for the purpose of professional development. This was revealed by Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk who was looking into the $3.8 million given outright to teachers unions during the most recent bargaining..To her surprise, she discovered a cornucopia of the people’s cash tumbling to the unions. Lysyk said in a report released Wednesday that those payments were unusual, but within the government’s authority. The concerns raised about the payments, revealed in media reports, were “understandable,” she wrote. “These arrangements initially lacked accountability and the controls usually associated with government funding.” The auditor’s office was unable to find evidence of any other government in Canada paying education-sector unions’ bargaining costs.
