"Perhaps $1,000, $10,000, $100,000? But in this case, $146,000-plus, and it's just processed on somebody's account, where their typical billing was $118 per billing period? I'm just surprised at the lack of oversight." City still charging NSF fee

Martin submitted a new meter reading to the City of Winnipeg, and is waiting for a new bill, but said the city is still going to charge his mother an NSF fee because she didn't have enough money in her account for the $146,000 payment to clear.

"The first thing that they said to me was, 'Oh, you're going to have to pay a 30-some-dollar NSF fee for this bill not going through," said Martin.

"And I said, 'In what sort of reasonable world would you have expected that a pre-authorized debit for $146,000 to somebody's personal account would not go NSF?'"

What an incompetent bunch of petty bureaucrats.

"It also makes you wonder if something as egregious as this bill payment has gone through, how many other smaller ones have gone through that have never been caught?"

Excellent point. When’s the Water & Waste Department’s next audit due?