This is a badly written article. I don’t trust Stephen Lecce, but I also don’t trust the author based on their level of reasoning.
The original budget for the refurbishment was not just a blanket “make everything better for $X money”. If it was, then it wouldn’t have been an estimate / budget, but just a completely wild guess.
The original project had an original scope, the fact that they discovered additional work that needs doing does not mean the originally scoped and budgeted work was not completed on time and on budget.
Like again, I don’t trust the PCs whatsoever, but this article doesn’t seem to understand the most basic aspects of project planning and budgeting.
Edit: lol at the author / op downvoting me with no explanation or counter point. Do better.The scope of work failing to cover the necessary work discovered by billions of dollars is still pretty fucking serious no matter how you do the accounting. If Lecce and Ford had come out and said, “Folks, we did our best, but this project is gonna cost another 3 billion beyond estimates,” it would have been a lot more honest than saying it was 150 million under-budget. The scope of work isn’t important, the actual results and actual requirements are.
The scope of work failing to cover the necessary work discovered by billions of dollars is still pretty fucking serious no matter how you do the accounting.
No, it’s not.
If I pay you to redo my floors, and while you’re doing it you discover that a pipe beneath them is leaking and needs to be fixed, that’s not an accounting issue, that’s not a problem with the contract to redo the floors, that’s just an unexpected issue that was only discovered when you did the previous work.
That happens literally all the time across all types of projects.
This is what journalists call a hit piece.
This is a NDP propaganda site. Fuck Drug Fraud, but if the NDP are going to act like PCs, then what is the fucking difference.
No, we’re not an NDP propaganda site.
We did do an interview series on leadership candidates though, but we’ve never endorsed any of them or the party.
The Leveller leans left, meaning it challenges power and privilege and sides with people over private property.
downvoted for bitching about downvotes, as is my people’s custom
