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House Hansard - 280

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 12, 2024 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 280 - Feb/12/24
Mr. Luc Thériault
  • Feb/12/24 1:52:44 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I would like to talk about how the work is organized. In Quebec City, parliamentary committees are rigorously organized. Witnesses are not invited for just five minutes of speeches with three or four other panellists at a meeting where sometimes there are not even any questions because the witnesses are of no interest to the party in question. Expert witnesses appear at these hearings, and each witness gets 50 minutes. It is altogether different. Here in Ottawa, the methodology is inadequate and we are not doing a good job. This needs to be fixed.
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Context: House Hansard - 280 - Feb/12/24
Mr. John Nater (Perth—Wellington, CPC)
  • Feb/12/24 3:06:00 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, for two years, parliamentary committees have been investigating the cozy relationship between government officials and highly paid insiders. Documents tabled at committee showed that the two-person-in-a-basement firm GC Strategies was hosting dinners and whiskey tastings for the same government officials who were giving multi-million-dollar contracts, all while government officials were getting mighty high bonuses. Could the chair of the mighty government operations committee inform the House of when the committee will next meet and when we will get answers for all Canadians?
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