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Many of those successful lower-ranked applications to the Skills Development Fund (SDF) were backed by lobbyists, whose projects received $126 million in funding, raising a spectre of possible preferential treatment, the report said — all of it a significant expansion of concerns about the troubled fund.

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[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is NOT small grants. This is MASSIVE.

In one case, Toronto-based company Scale Hospitality received at least $11 million in grants to train workers in its chain of restaurants, despite receiving a low score from bureaucrats.

In another case, CTV News revealed a casino, spa and hotel company got some $9 million in grants — millions more than had been announced. Its CEO is also a PC donor.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

but this was 300 jobs in HVAC training, or blow jobs.