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House Hansard - 143

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
December 7, 2022 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:39:28 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, here on this side of the House, we have confidence in the Auditor General, but the Minister of National Revenue, who was implicated in the Auditor General's report yesterday, is questioning her integrity. What did the minister say? She said the Auditor General was pressured by the opposition and that it was not her fault that her numbers concerning wasteful government spending were exaggerated. Yesterday, the Auditor General said, “the requirement to do the audit on the specific COVID benefits was included in an act.... That act...gave us a deadline to provide [the information] to the clerk”. Who makes these laws? The government. Why is the minister misleading the House? Will she apologize for the inappropriate remarks she made yesterday, yes or no?
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Context: House Hansard - 143 - Dec/7/22
Mr. Luc Berthold (Mégantic—L'Érable, CPC)
  • Dec/7/22 2:40:48 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the only thing we are going to cut is Liberal taxes. That is what we are going to cut. When the opposition asks the minister questions, she then goes and insults members in an interview with a local radio station in the Gaspé and refuses to apologize. When the Auditor General, an independent officer of Parliament, criticizes the minister's work, she questions the Auditor General's integrity. That is not even to mention her unacceptable reference to the Second World War yesterday. Once again, I would ask the minister to do the only honourable thing left for her to do in the House, namely to rise and apologize.
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