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House Hansard - 286

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 27, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)
  • Feb/27/24 11:05:55 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I heard my colleague make some quotes about $24,000 contracts and $100,000 contracts. This is a $20-million middleman contract. It is absurd and it was done with no accountability, no contracts and nothing of any sort to show what the money was for. It was a shovelling of taxpayer money into the pockets of a few chosen so-called IT consultants who are really just middlemen. It is something that is beyond the realm of what Canadians see as acceptable. Would my colleague please address the fact that this needs to be explored; but also explain to the House why her party filibustered, obfuscated and tried to hide this from Canadians for almost two years?
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)
  • Feb/27/24 11:28:42 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments made by my colleague from Quebec, but I have other comments and questions about other companies that received a lot of grants and contracts from the Liberal government during the pandemic. In my opinion and that of my colleagues, the Liberals hid behind the pandemic to hand out a lot of money to their friends. Is the member aware of the other contracts like the one that went to Medicago? What has been happening with Medicago from the time the contract was awarded until now?
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)
  • Feb/27/24 11:43:43 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I have a question for my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. In her speech, our Liberal colleague talked about the contract awarded to GC Strategies, a company formed in 2015. We have heard that this company had a number of contracts with the Government of Canada before that. However, the company did not exist before 2015. What does that mean?
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean (Calgary Centre, CPC)
  • Feb/27/24 11:59:01 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I really appreciated my colleague's speech. Of the many speeches he has given in the House, that is the one I liked the most. I will even accept his criticism of previous governments, because Canadians want to see transparency in the way their dollars are spent, including with every government that sits in the House. However, I would ask the member about what happened during the pandemic and all the contracts that were given out. The government was dealing with a lot of its insider friends, and more or less said, “Let's not let a good crisis go to waste. Let's set up corporations to get a whole bunch of money out the door.” Hundreds of billions of dollars were spent by the government in unaccountable ways. We have only scratched the surface here, and every time we land on something, it takes two years to actually show some transparency, because of committee obfuscation, delays, etc. I ask the member whether he would actually step up and tell his party, in light of another $50-million scandal, which is five times what the Jean Chrétien scandal was that brought down his government, that he would consider withdrawing his support for the obviously corrupt government.
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean
  • Feb/27/24 12:29:47 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I do not know how to say this loud enough. The member is misleading the House. This company was created in 2015. Its incorporation date is 2015, shortly after the Liberal government was elected.
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean
  • Feb/27/24 12:30:06 p.m.
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No, it is not, Madam Speaker. It is a point of very significant relevance. The member is misleading the House and I would like a ruling on it, please.
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Context: House Hansard - 286 - Feb/27/24
Mr. Greg McLean
  • Feb/27/24 12:31:45 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, the point is that the member is misleading the House. If the company did not exist before—
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