Why is government so corrupt in canada?

We like to think our corruption isn't too bad but trying to address it does show why is is as bad as it is. Our system lacks accountability and transparency. Even when we know there is corruption we are unable to address it.

A good example was our Long Gun Registry. This was a data base with approximately 8 million entries, or long guns. The information for the data base was required by law to be supplied by the owners of the long guns and kept updated by those owners. Just about the easiest way to build a data base. If I contracted someone to build a similar data base it would cost maybe $2 million and that was the original estimate. Even with cost over runs $10 Million would be high.

It cost us Billions of dollars. We know it is impossible to spend that kind of money on such a program without corruption, theft and fraud yet all we get is assurances that all the money is "accounted" for and we got good value for our money.

Corruption can only exist when there is no accountability and a lack of transparency. Systems that do not require the government to account for the money it is spending and let people see where the money, right down to the dollar, is going are going to be corrupt.