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Originally Posted by YOWetal
Can agree on procurement bureaucracy but Finance is getting in the way in that they don't want us to go bankrupt.
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That's not what Finance does. All they do is accounting. If Cabinet decides they want to drive to bankruptcy, Finance will oblige them. What I'm getting at is that there are a ton of internal processes within government that need to be cleaned up. And maybe even more risk appetite to speed things up.
An example we talk about. The limit on minor capital projects is $10M. If you work at Women and Gender Equality Canada, that is an incredible amount of money. At DND, I could spend that on buying satellites in an afternoon. DND is also the only place that will have hundreds of people who have actually managed $10M. It makes no sense to treat both government departments the exact same way with the exact same rules. I don't blame this risk aversion on Finance. But a Finance Minister who wasn't as much of a control freak would help. There should be a bit more process innovation and risk appetite that allows some asymmetric authority in government. DND has been arguing for a while, for example, that we should be able to spend $50M with the same authority that other departments spend $10M, both because we have more trained and experienced financial managers, and because everything in our line of work is expensive.
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