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House Hansard - 282

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 14, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 282 - Feb/14/24
Mrs. Kelly Block (Carlton Trail—Eagle Creek, CPC)
  • Feb/14/24 2:15:59 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General lifted the veil on the government's corrupt arrive scam, revealing that the cost of the useless app, which should have been $80,000, is $60 million and counting. The two-person company GC Strategies, which did no IT work, was paid over $19 million for arrive scam, charging over $1,000 a day, which is 60% more than a government IT employee. With insider access, it dictated the requirements for a contract it won. Today, media are reporting that the company has received over $250 million from the Liberal government since 2015. Whiskey tasting and extravagant dinners with government officials went unrecorded, documents went missing and taxpayers footed the bill. The Prime Minister's failed arrive scam app, which wrongly sent thousands of Canadians into quarantine, was over-budget and not worth the cost. The RCMP must expand its investigation to figure out where the money is and how to get it back.
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Context: House Hansard - 282 - Feb/14/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Feb/14/24 2:25:18 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on its web site, GC Strategies boasts about being Ottawa's fastest-growing company. After eight years of this Prime Minister, this company is growing very fast indeed. It has four employees and does no IT work, yet it received a quarter of a billion dollars for IT. The first contract for this company was signed three weeks after this Prime Minister came to power. Why?
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Context: House Hansard - 282 - Feb/14/24
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Feb/14/24 2:39:50 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have learned the ArriveCAN scandal goes even deeper. The Liberals gave $250 million to GC Strategies. Let us talk about what that $60 million for ArriveCAN could have bought: 125 affordable homes or 800 nurses hired. Instead, the Prime Minister spent this money on an app that does not work and that no one uses. How does the Prime Minister look Canadians in the eyes with all this waste?
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Context: House Hansard - 282 - Feb/14/24
Mr. Jagmeet Singh (Burnaby South, NDP)
  • Feb/14/24 2:41:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the rules were flagrantly violated, and millions of dollars were wasted. The Liberals gave $250 million to GC Strategies and that includes $60 million spent on an app that does not work. The government could have built 125 affordable housing units with that $60 million. How can the Prime Minister look Canadians in the eye after wasting so much money?
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Context: House Hansard - 282 - Feb/14/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Feb/14/24 3:00:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, our common-sense plan axes the tax, builds the homes, fixes the budgets and stops the crime. The Prime Minister cannot defend his policy, so he is changing the name. People hate the carbon tax because 60% pay more into it than they get back in his phony rebates. Today, he announced a costly rebranding of the hated carbon tax. My questions for him are these: How much did he spend on consultants in order to come up with the new name, and was it GC Strategies that he hired?
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