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House Hansard - 75

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
May 19, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:07:53 p.m.
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Madam Chair, wow. Other major purchases have been negotiated within months. Why is it taking seven months for the F-35?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:13:19 p.m.
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Madam Chair, this is beautiful. The minister's own departmental plan, on page 19, if she wishes to check, targets for this year a 15% decrease in purchases from Canadian small businesses last year. How is this supporting small businesses?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:15:19 p.m.
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Madam Chair, that is not the case. The large majority of dollars in purchases from Amazon are not for web services, and the Order Paper response provided by the government shows that. Why is the government spending so much on Amazon and not on small Canadian businesses?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:15:59 p.m.
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Madam Chair, there is $32 million in purchases from small businesses for direct non-cloud services, and about $20 million for cloud. That is the truth, right from the government's own numbers. Amazon has sold items promoting Xinjiang cotton, three of which directly use forced labour. Will the minister immediately end all government Amazon purchases and buy from local Canadian businesses instead?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:16:42 p.m.
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Madam Chair, the House voted unanimously that what the Communist Chinese government was doing to the Uighurs was genocide. I will repeat the question. Amazon is selling items purchased from Xinjiang that are knowingly using forced labour. Will the minister immediately end purchases from Amazon and send those purchases to small and medium enterprises?
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Context: House Hansard - 75 - May/19/22
Mr. Kelly McCauley
  • May/19/22 8:17:16 p.m.
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Madam Chair, will the minister immediately terminate all purchases from Amazon, seeing as it is selling items made with forced labour?
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