Accountability?

"It's ridiculous, OK. I'm just going to say it's ridiculous. It is the kind of entitlement that is unacceptable.
"The rules that were put in place allowed this kind of entitlement. It's unacceptable, and those are the wrong rules; they shouldn't be there.
"It's absolutely appropriate for people to be outraged by that kind of decision. Should people be expensing tea and coffee? No, they should not, and the rules will change."
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne

VINCE TALOTTA / TORONTO STAR    Ontario 's incoming premier, Kathleen Wynne, says she hopes to avoid "rancour" that stalled the Liberal government under Dalton McGuinty. 

"Premier, you said that you would not follow the same pattern of behaviour or the culture of entitlement of the Dalton McGuinty Liberals. When I think about that kind of gross waste and arrogance, it makes me wonder what is different about Kathleen Wynne. It sounds like the same tune the Liberals have been playing for ten years."
Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak

"We've seen the same kind of scandals with eHealth, the exact same kind of scandal with the Ornge air ambulance, where these folks at the very top are expensing not only things like coffee and tea and muffins, but trips all over the world."
Ontario New Democratic Party Leader Andrea Horvath

This, in reference to the 2015 Pan Am Games organizing committee expense claims. Billing for expensive hotel rooms and dinners on their travels to Guadalajara, London, Glasgow, Miami, Jamaica and St. Kits. Oh, and the committee's CEO Ian Troop, whose salary comes in at $477,000 annually, billing for a $.91 parking ticket. And its senior vice president, Allan Vansen, billing over $27,000 to move from Vancouver to Toronto; $110 for flying a pet.

PC Leader Tim Hudak thinks these expenses are "outrageous". Now that they've been drawn, publicly, to the attention of the premier, she agrees. And she insists her government plans to do something about it. So quickly it will take place the day before yesterday. Officials have been ordered, she says, ordered, to tighten the rules, make them clear enough so that no one, no one at all, might possibly misinterpret, misunderstand, misplace their knowledge of their clear direction.

The NDP, however, fret that the ruling Liberals have simply learned nothing whatever from past scandals which saw $1-billion wasted on an computerized eHealth scheme that floundered while exorbitantly paid health care consultants put muffins and coffees on their expense claims. The PCs are demanding an auditor general's investigation.

And a huffing good time was being had by all, exercising the passion of their politics. That wasn't a low-grade earthquake hitting the province, just a collective, exasperated, helpless sigh from a hapless electorate.