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House Hansard - 61

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 29, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 61 - Apr/29/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley (Edmonton West, CPC)
  • Apr/29/22 11:45:16 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the PBO has exposed $15 billion in unexplained defence spending in the budget. Now, in a briefing with the PBO, we were told it asked finance but that finance said it did not know and to go ask DND. It asked DND, but DND said that it did not know and to ask finance. It went back to finance and finance said, “Well, we don't know the details. Maybe it's just a forecast.” Maybe someone on that side of the House could tell us, or perhaps finance or DND, what that $15 billion is for?
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Context: House Hansard - 61 - Apr/29/22
Mr. Bryan May (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, Lib.)
  • Apr/29/22 11:45:55 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, we are increasing our defence spending by over 70% under the defence policy “Strong, Secure, Engaged” and budget 2022 contains an additional $8 billion in new defence spending. The department plan only contains current capital spending that has been fully approved by the Treasury Board and Parliament, whereas the budget contains forward-looking forecasts. In other words, these are two different ways of presenting our forecasted spending.
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Context: House Hansard - 61 - Apr/29/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • Apr/29/22 12:11:51 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I rise on a second point of order concerning the parliamentary secretary for defence's answer. I would like to retable the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report on, “Strong, Secure, Engaged”, which was done at the same time as the budget, where defence actually noted that they do not have that added $15 billion either.
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