I happen to be from Ontario and in Ontario the Regions are spending many Billions of dollars on public tenders each year inviting only a few friends and keeping all others from getting their work or making money from their work if they get one The few invited friends are mostly companies who could not compete in open tender and can only get the work from taking nonelected public officials golfing and god knows what else All that is evident is that public works cost up to  or more than it should and they are not subject to Auditor General control The public money is mostly wasted this way forcing our taxes here to keep escalating out of control I dont know about other parts of the world but most honest democratic countries have checks and balances in place Not in the Regions of Ontario which is basically one big networked secret organization where they are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars by things like not conducting completive and no tender at all sometimes so they can help their friends get high prices for their public works contracts I picked Peel as examples out because they are the biggest and wasting the most money each year They have their tender material published online and they are quite blatant about what they do because the elected Regional Council members are almost all totally corrupt beyond redemption