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House Hansard - 122

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 1, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22
Hon. Pierre Poilievre
  • Nov/1/22 10:20:40 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, we did introduce the Federal Accountability Act, which cracked down on corruption after 10 years of sponsorship scandals, billion-dollar boondoggles and other Liberal corruption. That was dirty, illegal Liberal money. The NDP was actually forced to support our Federal Accountability Act measures. We will always work to make the law more strict. That is why we caught the Liberals with SNC-Lavalin, the WE Charity scandal and the Aga Khan island, on which the Prime Minister illegally vacationed. All of those scandals were exposed as a result of the Federal Accountability Act, which I was proud to shepherd through this House. The real question is why the NDP continues to support Liberal scandal and Liberal waste today. Why does the member not start working for the people of Hamilton instead of working for the Prime Minister? We on this side work for our constituents. We work for the common people.
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Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22
Mr. Rick Perkins (South Shore—St. Margarets, CPC)
  • Nov/1/22 10:33:52 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member went through a litany of Liberal failures, excessive spending and corruption. In the last three years, as the Canadian government has grown in size, and people have lost their jobs, we have seen examples such the Department of Fisheries and Oceans growing by 4,300 net new jobs in the last three years, 1,000 of which are in finance and HR. I guess they have a lot of HR problems in fisheries. The only place in this economy that seems to be growing is government jobs. I wonder if the member could comment on that.
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Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22
Mr. Michael Barrett
  • Nov/1/22 12:09:53 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is a big question for not a lot of time. As opposition parties, we worked very hard to try to get answers for Canadians, and there is still a need. If folks at CRA are watching, an audit or two is well overdue for those folks at WE Charity because, my goodness, there was a spider web of shell companies in an attempt to hide from transparency. We know that they hid witnesses and would not reveal documents. While it cost a finance minister his job, and we saw even more corruption, we still do not know all of the details. The government tried to give $912 million, nearly a billion dollars, to buddies of the Prime Minister. It is incredibly concerning. We do not have all of the information. We want to know what happened with those property sales in this company, which they said they were folding up. It is another great example of the accountability that Canadians deserve when the Liberal government is being cavalier with their tax dollars.
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Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22
Mr. Marc Dalton (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge, CPC)
  • Nov/1/22 1:44:29 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I hope that you will pardon us if we are in disbelief regarding the member's comments. He talks about the scrutiny of the app. The Liberals cannot even scrutinize the contracts they have given. They do not know where $1.2 million of this $54 million went. We have all had blood tests. In a blood test there is a small sample of what is going on in the entire body. This ArriveCAN is like a blood test and inside of it we see wastefulness. We see incompetency and perhaps corruption. We see dysfunctionality. We see all sorts of problems. Will the member for Kingston and the Islands agree with this?
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Context: House Hansard - 122 - Nov/1/22
The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)
  • Nov/1/22 1:45:07 p.m.
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The member talked about corruption. I would just caution him about some of the words that he used because members cannot say indirectly what they cannot say directly. I just want the member to be careful on that. The hon. parliamentary secretary.
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