Where to begin?
The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, originally set up to foster economic development, has dropped a total of $53,861 years ago since 2004 to send a group of junior high school students to a Lego robotics competition in Georgia.
1. Time to sort out ACOA: The agency is badly off track, having become a funnel for all manner of federal pork.
2. Connie hypocrisy: The Connies claimed they wanted to scrap ACOA before they got elected. Turns out that, they love ACOA's pork pushing properties.
3. Connie hypocrisy: Fabian pushed more pork into this pork project. This bit of business started while John Efford was regional minister and the member of parliament for the area. Fabian Manning has somehow managed to get the amount of cash increased, according to the Chronicle Herald story.
4. The robotics competition is an excellent learning project but... this isn't something that ACOA should be funding. This is an educational project and should be supported from provincial coffers.
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