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Adam Chambers

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Conservative
  • Simcoe North
  • Ontario
  • Voting Attendance: 68%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $121,028.17

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  • Feb/17/23 11:34:38 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, on this side of the House, we did support the government with the GST supplement, which is actually running out now. What we did not support was distributing dental and rental benefits by a process that is being called into question by the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Auditor General, who says it increases the risk of fraud. If we listen to everybody else, the government says all these issues are someone else's problems. They happen outside of Canada. That means the government does not believe it has the responsibility or the ability to fix the problems that it causes. Will the government finally take responsibility for the issues that it has caused?
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  • Feb/14/23 2:59:03 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years, the government now believes that it no longer needs the Auditor General's advice. The Auditor General identified $27 billion of COVID support payments that should be investigated, except that the CRA says that it is not worth the effort to review those payments. The Parliamentary Budget Officer is now ringing the alarm bells saying that he, too, is concerned that the CRA will not review these payments. Will the government finally take the advice of the Auditor General, review these COVID payments and make sure that Canadians recover the improper payments paid by this government?
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  • Feb/2/23 3:03:33 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years of fiscal mismanagement, the Liberal government is not even hiding it anymore. It has now decided it no longer needs to accept the advice of the Auditor General, who says $27 billion in COVID support payments need to be investigated. Instead, the CRA says it is not worth the effort. Will the government take the advice of the independent Auditor General, or does it believe it is not worth the effort to recover money for taxpayers?
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  • Dec/6/22 2:46:09 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the problem is that the Auditor General said very clearly the postpayment verification process is anything but rigorous. The problem is that taxpayers are now on the hook for these billions of dollars they may never receive back. This is the same failed process the government is relying upon when distributing its new dental and rental benefits. Will the government admit it had no controls and finally put some controls in place before it distributes any more government money?
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  • Dec/6/22 2:45:14 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the Auditor General stated that the process the government relied on to distribute COVID benefits led to $4.6 billion in overpayments to ineligible individuals, and at least another $27 billion that needs to be investigated. How much of this $32 billion can taxpayers expect to recover? How much money is the government going to spend in administrative costs to recover money for taxpayers?
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