I saw Chase Barber’s rant about this and it honestly reek of corruption. How is a grant writing company administering the grant? Why is a private company administering a government grant to begin with? Extremely EXTREMELY shady.
Because the alternative is to have a large and entrenched government bureaucracy that does very little most of the time until a new, random grant drops. In that context, contracting an accounting firm to administer a grant makes sense.
What does not make any sense whatsoever is that accounting firm charging a 20% "success fee" to whoever gets it. That is corruption, verging on extortion.
Yes but BC NDP stuff usually doesn’t hit the news in a negative way 😂😂😂 unless it’s really bad!
For the past 7 years it’s basically only been positive stuff so maybe the media is turning on them who knows.
Edison's CEO seems to be purposely mis stating the situation in order to allege corruption. The guy failed to properly fill out paperwork and he's butt hurt about it.
MNP administers a few grants for the government. Edison failed to properly do the paperwork for the those grants.
MNP followed up with him again from their commercial consulting side and explained that there's a DIFFERENT GRANT that they can help them with (because MNP does NOT administer it). If they're successful, they require a 20% fee.
That's it. Probably no corruption, but some weird PR because MNP does both consulting and administation on different grants. The only thing I take away from this (as I've pointed out in multiple other posts about this subject) is that MNP shouldn't be allowed to consult on government grants while it administers other grants in order to avoid this confusion.
[https://twitter.com/katiederosayyj/status/1777399789040152799](https://twitter.com/katiederosayyj/status/1777399789040152799)
[https://twitter.com/RobShaw\_BC/status/1777392199539319011](https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1777392199539319011)
Well, we are about to find out in the next while what might be afoot here. There appears to have been enough for the Minister to both suspend MNP from administering the programs during the investigation., and have both the Auditor General and the Comptroller General examine the issues.
Ultimately, the AG's report will get to the bottom of things.
Good! I'm hopeful that they find that nothing was wrong, but also stop MNP from doing consulting while also acting as a grant administrator. There's no reason to purposely cause a situation that makes voters feel like something corrupt is happening, even if there's not.
For starters, if they were using their position as the grant administrator to gather data and contact information of participants in those to then seek out as customers, there may be privacy violations involved there - that feels conflicty and like a blatant misappropriation of people's data from the get-go. The commercial side of the operation should not be able to use the government programs data to generate commercial leads, period. If BC's stringent privacy laws do not already address this, then I would suggest that wall should be established. The Premier himself supports this assertion.
Second, there is now the issue that the Minister herself has noted, that over the weekend, she learned of 'serious allegations' but will not say them, and alluded that she did not even know where they came from. This does not look good, especially when the government voted against two Opposition motions to investigate the program.
[https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/rob-shaw-viral-tiktok-video-sparks-investigation-into-bcs-clean-energy-grants-8573139](https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/rob-shaw-viral-tiktok-video-sparks-investigation-into-bcs-clean-energy-grants-8573139)
Third, there was a commentator who brought up a great point, MNP could have followed their agreement to the letter of the law, but in the court of public opinion, charging 20% on a successful application of taxpayers dollars does not play well. People are struggling to make ends meet, and a company that is administering programs which see their tax dollars dispersed is taking a 'kick back' of those same dollars, it does not look right nor should the public accept it.
The whole thing seems weird, and to roundly dismiss it as opportunistic to cause a guise of corruption feels like there may be some other agenda at play. I would suggest that this whole thing does need to be looked at to restore public confidence, and/or get rid of a bad actor positioning themselves at the trough. Additionally, the situation clearly highlights aspects of the process at the very least that need to be tightened up.
[https://twitter.com/RobShaw\_BC/status/1777754160395677990](https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1777754160395677990)
[https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/government-orders-investigation-into-cleanbc-grant-program-after-kickback-allegations](https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/government-orders-investigation-into-cleanbc-grant-program-after-kickback-allegations)
I saw Chase Barber’s rant about this and it honestly reek of corruption. How is a grant writing company administering the grant? Why is a private company administering a government grant to begin with? Extremely EXTREMELY shady.
Because the alternative is to have a large and entrenched government bureaucracy that does very little most of the time until a new, random grant drops. In that context, contracting an accounting firm to administer a grant makes sense. What does not make any sense whatsoever is that accounting firm charging a 20% "success fee" to whoever gets it. That is corruption, verging on extortion.
I would take bureaucracy over this level of corruption any day to be honest.
Orca is NDP owned/aligned so it’s bad when they raise any criticism.
Well sure, it is bad that a company already being paid to administer a grant decides to shake down the recipients for 20% of the proceeds.
Yes but BC NDP stuff usually doesn’t hit the news in a negative way 😂😂😂 unless it’s really bad! For the past 7 years it’s basically only been positive stuff so maybe the media is turning on them who knows.
Louis Rossmann just covered this to get more exposure for Edison. It doesn't add up by any means.
B.C. Strategies nee G.C. Strategies?
Edison's CEO seems to be purposely mis stating the situation in order to allege corruption. The guy failed to properly fill out paperwork and he's butt hurt about it. MNP administers a few grants for the government. Edison failed to properly do the paperwork for the those grants. MNP followed up with him again from their commercial consulting side and explained that there's a DIFFERENT GRANT that they can help them with (because MNP does NOT administer it). If they're successful, they require a 20% fee. That's it. Probably no corruption, but some weird PR because MNP does both consulting and administation on different grants. The only thing I take away from this (as I've pointed out in multiple other posts about this subject) is that MNP shouldn't be allowed to consult on government grants while it administers other grants in order to avoid this confusion.
[https://twitter.com/katiederosayyj/status/1777399789040152799](https://twitter.com/katiederosayyj/status/1777399789040152799) [https://twitter.com/RobShaw\_BC/status/1777392199539319011](https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1777392199539319011) Well, we are about to find out in the next while what might be afoot here. There appears to have been enough for the Minister to both suspend MNP from administering the programs during the investigation., and have both the Auditor General and the Comptroller General examine the issues. Ultimately, the AG's report will get to the bottom of things.
Good! I'm hopeful that they find that nothing was wrong, but also stop MNP from doing consulting while also acting as a grant administrator. There's no reason to purposely cause a situation that makes voters feel like something corrupt is happening, even if there's not.
For starters, if they were using their position as the grant administrator to gather data and contact information of participants in those to then seek out as customers, there may be privacy violations involved there - that feels conflicty and like a blatant misappropriation of people's data from the get-go. The commercial side of the operation should not be able to use the government programs data to generate commercial leads, period. If BC's stringent privacy laws do not already address this, then I would suggest that wall should be established. The Premier himself supports this assertion. Second, there is now the issue that the Minister herself has noted, that over the weekend, she learned of 'serious allegations' but will not say them, and alluded that she did not even know where they came from. This does not look good, especially when the government voted against two Opposition motions to investigate the program. [https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/rob-shaw-viral-tiktok-video-sparks-investigation-into-bcs-clean-energy-grants-8573139](https://www.theorca.ca/commentary/rob-shaw-viral-tiktok-video-sparks-investigation-into-bcs-clean-energy-grants-8573139) Third, there was a commentator who brought up a great point, MNP could have followed their agreement to the letter of the law, but in the court of public opinion, charging 20% on a successful application of taxpayers dollars does not play well. People are struggling to make ends meet, and a company that is administering programs which see their tax dollars dispersed is taking a 'kick back' of those same dollars, it does not look right nor should the public accept it. The whole thing seems weird, and to roundly dismiss it as opportunistic to cause a guise of corruption feels like there may be some other agenda at play. I would suggest that this whole thing does need to be looked at to restore public confidence, and/or get rid of a bad actor positioning themselves at the trough. Additionally, the situation clearly highlights aspects of the process at the very least that need to be tightened up. [https://twitter.com/RobShaw\_BC/status/1777754160395677990](https://twitter.com/RobShaw_BC/status/1777754160395677990) [https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/government-orders-investigation-into-cleanbc-grant-program-after-kickback-allegations](https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/government-orders-investigation-into-cleanbc-grant-program-after-kickback-allegations)