00:06:46.800Hired in 2017 at just over $500,000 a year, Verster continued collecting his raises and bonuses while failing to deliver what was promised.
00:06:55.860His salary eventually topped out at $883,000 despite never delivering the Crosstown.
00:07:03.160In April 2023, as insiders in the Ford government pushed to boost his salary to more than a million a year,
00:07:09.780it was revealed that part of the reason for the Crosstown delay was that the tracks had been improperly laid.
00:07:16.320Verster's time at Metrolinx came to an end in late 2024, far too late to save taxpayers from the ridiculous delays and cost overruns, as well as his unjustified salary and expenses.
00:07:28.780Check this out. It was only after he was gone that it was reported publicly that Verster had been collecting a car allowance of $13,392 per year.
00:07:39.980Pretty bad, right? It's even worse. He didn't even own or lease a car.
00:07:44.080So this is the guy that Mark Carney has hired for this job.
00:07:47.680But did you pay attention to the colors?
00:07:49.480Like I told you, it's now $150 billion high-speed rail project.
00:07:54.980Now, Lily puts in here $90 billion to $150 billion, but it's slowly creeping up, folks.
00:08:01.700And we're hiring incompetent people to put in this rail line, which I guess won't even be built for more than a decade.