Cumberland Regional Development Authority: another chapter in the “economic development” grift

July 10, 2014 By Tim Bousquet

This morning the province released a damning audit of the Cumberland Regional Development Authority. The audit, performed by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, runs 700 pages. Necessarily, reporters will today skim the audit for the choicest details, and the resulting articles will sensationalize the abuses. There’s nothing wrong with that, and I’m going to do a bit of it…

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Tim Bousquet is the editor and publisher of the Halifax Examiner. email: [email protected]; Twitter

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