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The delay-prone provincial Childrens Aid Society computer network is further proof the Liberal government is incapable of handling multimillion dollar information technology projects, a Tory critic says.

MPP Jim McDonell (StormontDundasGlengarry) said time and time again IT contracts initiated by the Liberals have been wrought with problems, the most recent being the overpayment of millions of dollars to social service recipients.

They just cant get it right . . . the oversight is just not there, he said Monday.

The Star has reported that despite the urging by the Jeffrey Baldwin coroners inquest just over a year ago to have the province-wide $122-million centralized computer system designed to track children in CAS care up and running within two years, it is not expected to be ready until 2019-20.

Five-year-old Jeffrey died in 2002 after being placed in the care of his grandparents by Torontos Catholic CAS despite the fact they had previous convictions for child abuse, something that wasnt discovered until later by the CAS when poring over its files.

They (the Liberal government) dont even want to put a deadline on this one (the CAS computer system, also known as CPIN) because when they do they never meet them, McDonell said.

He noted that to make matters worse the government is using the same software system for the 46 CAS agencies across the province that was used in the provinces new problem-plagued $240-million Social Assistance Management System (SAMS). The government has confirmed CPIN uses the same base application Curan/IBM as SAMS.

They (the government) wastes hundreds of millions of dollars but there are never any penalties . . . its like when you get a contract with the Ontario government its like youve won the lottery, said McDonell, who also pointed to the 2009 $1-billion electronic health records eHealth scandal.

Minister of Children and Youth Services Tracy MacCharles has insisted that transferring millions of records from the old system to CPIN is a large, complex and delicate process . . . that takes time and requires serious consideration.

A spokeswoman for MacCharles said Monday: To date, the implementation process is proceeding well and according to plan, based on the readiness of each CAS. As is the case with any project of this magnitude, there may be bumps along the way and we are committed to examining and addressing any issues that may surface.

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Labor Party faces a major blow, set to lose power in its last state of South Australia after the Liberals claim victory in Tasmania. Nine News.

The South Australian Liberal Party is pinning last-minute hopes on a record number of pre-poll and postal votes to scrape into government, but Labor believes it can still win the support of independents to retain power in the state.

Voters will have to wait days for Saturday's election to be decided, but the most likely prospect is a minority government relying on two independents.

The government and the opposition in Canberra are watching the wash-up with keen interest. If Labor holds on to government in the state after the Liberal Party swept to power in Tasmania at the weekend, South Australia would have denied the conservative parties a clean sweep across the federal and state landscapes.

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Columnist Walter Williams typically claims that when things go wrong, liberals are to blame. In his latest screed (Liberals want blacks in perpetual state of grievance, Daily Reflector, Dec. 31), he also conjures a liberal conspiracy: keep blacks stirred up so they vote Democratic.

Williams apparently believes that to garner votes, liberals instigated voter suppression, opposed minimum wage hikes and prompted recent shootings of black men. I suspect that his delusional accusation is a paranoid reflection of Republicans strategy of keeping tea partiers in a state of agitation.

Williams claim that the National Education Association and New Yorks Mayor Bill de Blasio (whose wife is black and children are bi-racial) are aligned against black parents and students defies reason. Meanwhile he skirts the issue of public funding for private schools. Many conservatives want to abolish public education, and claim that vouchers offer poor blacks a way out of bad schools a debatable proposition. But resisting public funding of private schools is not a racial matter, even though Williams wants to make it one. (Mayor de Blasios action, affecting three privately-run charters, was not the hatchet job Williams implies.)

Williams says liberals want to undermine established authority, by which he means the police. Granted, conservatives tend to support recently publicized police actions while liberals tend to question them. Questioning authority is an inherent right sustained by the Constitution. Meanwhile conservatives continually criticize government, the IRS, most federal agencies and the president. Are they trying to undermine established authority?

Williams says that liberals often have demeaning attitudes toward blacks. Liberals support civil and voting rights for blacks against stiff conservative resistance. What conservative groups work to achieve rights for black Americans?

Yes, well-intentioned people can be condescending toward those they support. They should stop it. But stereotyping, political oppression and hate cause far more damage.

DON CLEMENT

Greenville

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Upon returning from Hawaii this week, President Obama will confront a growing firestorm around a key Treasury nominee, with senators across the ideological spectrum seemingly ready to do battle with the White House in one of the first political fights of 2015.

The confirmation of Antonio Weiss tapped by Mr. Obama to serve as Treasurys undersecretary for domestic finance is in doubt, as liberals such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, have taken direct aim at the former investment bankers close ties to Wall Street.

The uproar highlights how some on the left, led by Mrs. Warren and also powerful progressive organizations outside Capitol Hill, now feel more emboldened to take on both the administration and so-called Wall Street Democrats.

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They argue the administration must move to the left, particularly on financial matters, and needs to break associations the Democratic Party has with powerful banks and other financial institutions. Mrs. Warren has, for example, made the case that the federal government should pursue harsher regulations on Wall Street and should seek to break up large banks.

The overrepresentation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one and only one point of view will dominate economic policymaking, Mrs. Warren wrote in the Huffington Post late last year after the White House put forward Mr. Weiss.

It tells people that whatever goes wrong in this economy, the Wall Street banks will be protected first, she continued. Thats yet another advantage that Wall Street just doesnt need.

In recent weeks a number of other Democrats have voiced similar criticism, including Sens. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Al Franken of Minnesota and even Joe Manchin III of West Virginia.

It is important to send the message that we will no longer allow Wall Street to exclusively make our fiscal policy decisions, especially when they affect so many on Main Street, Mr. Manchin, one of the Democratic caucus more conservative members, said on the Senate floor last month.

Mrs. Warren, Mr. Manchin and other opponents have been joined by groups such as the Progressive Change Campaign Committee which has rallied liberals to oppose Mr. Weiss nomination and organizations such as the Independent Community Bankers of America, which argues the nominee would be yet another Wall Street voice in the federal government.

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