In his opinion piece for the National Post yesterday, Work and Economics program director Brian Dijkema called for fair, open and competitive tendering in Ontario, particularly as $11 billion is scheduled to go toward its public infrastructure. Warnings have been sounded for years about this flawed approach to public expenditure—Cardus research suggests increases of 20 to 30 percent on billions of dollars of work—and little has been done about it. It appears we’re content to throw away hundreds of millions of extra dollars every year without anything to show it. The article is an introduction to the report published earlier this year by Cardus's Work and Economics program entitled "Tuning Up Ontario's Economic Engine," which studies the cost implications of closed tendering on the City of Toronto. Read the rest of this article at the National Post website.