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Keith Reynolds
Keith Reynolds is the former National Research Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Employees. He has done policy work for all three levels of government. His areas of expertise include privatization, P3s, and municipal government and finance. Follow Keith on Twitter
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BC Muni’s issue verdict on local government Auditor: They are polite but stupid
After more than three years of existence, chronic controversy and underperformance from British Columbia’s Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG), the Union of BC Municipalities…
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TransLink boss salary of $319,244+? Peanuts
Lately, there has been quite a fuss about how much the top people at TransLink get paid to provide road and transit services in BC’s…
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Legislative changes likely to reduce further the independence of the Auditor General for Local Government
Earlier this month British Columbians saw one more chapter unfold in the ongoing saga of the Auditor General for Local Government. The provincial government released…
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Fire the Auditor General for Local Government? It’ll cost us
When BC Community Minister Coralee Oakes fired the Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) last week the issue that had been in the news was…
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BC Budget 2015 snapshot: More revenue from MSP, tuition, but less money for public services
One way to measure a government’s commitment to public services is to see what percentage of the province’s wealth (GDP) the government spends on these…
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13 years on, BC Finance Ministry finds big problems with its public private partnership program
The BC Finance Ministry has produced a report much more critical of Partnerships BC and its activities around public private partnerships (P3s) than might have…
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Ontario Auditor breaks new ground with review of public private partnerships methodology: BC Auditor says maybe, sometime
Last month Ontario’s Auditor General issued her annual report. One of her targets was Ontario’s use of public private partnerships to build public infrastructure. As…
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New BC Auditor General report finds public private partnerships double the cost of borrowing
British Columbia’s new Auditor General, Carol Bellringer, published her annual report on government’s 2013-14 summary financial statements today and it contains some pretty interesting highlights.…
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What is the “right amount” for local governments to spend?
Just how much money should a local government spend? If you ask the Fraser Institute, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) or the Canadian Federation of…
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Feds and provinces push billions in costs down on to towns and cities
It is all too easy to get lost in “today’s issue” when we look at things without realizing they are part of a larger pattern…
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BC’s controversial contract obligations dwarf its debt
Most of the discussion around the delivery of British Columbia’s public accounts this week has centred on debt (Marvin Shaffer makes excellent points in the…
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Quebec’s Auditor General slams highway public private partnership
Yesterday Quebec’s Auditor General came out with a report slamming public private partnerships in that province. The special audit was conducted at the request of…
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