On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:54:06AM -0800, Marshall Clow wrote:
| At 1:38 PM -0500 12/13/02, Adam Shostack wrote:
| >PS: Current news in Canada includes the gun registry having undergone
| >a 12x cost overrun, and its not clear what will happen to it. A large
| >reason for the overruns have been people making mistakes in filling
| >out the complex forms, and thus slowing down implementation.
| >http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/12/guns011212
| >
| >I think its time for me to go get a gun permit, and help the proces
| >along.
|
| Adam -
|
| The article that you linked to claims that the projected cost of the
| gun registry was $2 million, and the actual cost was (so far) $680 million.
|
| That's a bit more than 12x :-)
Yeah, that was a marketing claim as they put the program forward, as I
recall. The original budgeted number was 85 million, and current
projections are that it will cost upwards of a billion to complete.
Of course, I could be totally off.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
