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House Hansard - 271

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 30, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jan/30/24 2:18:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, after eight years, the Prime Minister says that he had no choice but to double the national debt and drive up inflation and interest rates because every penny he spent was absolutely necessary. Today, however, we learned that 76% of the contractors paid from the $54 million spent on the ArriveCAN app did no work. Will the Prime Minister get our money back and stop wasting it?
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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Hon. Pierre Poilievre (Leader of the Opposition, CPC)
  • Jan/30/24 2:21:16 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, when the Prime Minister doubled the debt and drove inflation and interest rates to their highest levels in a generation, he said he had no choice, that every penny he spent was necessary. Along came ArriveCAN, a $54-million app that we did not need, that did not work, and that could have been done for $200,000 or $300,000. Now, we have learned, based on the ombudsman's audit, that 76% of the contractors did absolutely no work for the money they received. Will the Prime Minister get back this stolen money for taxpayers and stop the waste that is not worth the cost?
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Context: House Hansard - 271 - Jan/30/24
Mr. Bernard Généreux (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, CPC)
  • Jan/30/24 3:05:46 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this government has been spending recklessly for the past eight years. The ArriveCAN app cost $54 million. The billion-dollar green fund is turning out just like the sponsorship scandal, the Canada Infrastructure Bank and any number of other unnecessary expenditures that make it impossible to balance the budget. Then there are the massive amounts of money spent on contracts for consultants of all kinds. Conservatives want a plan to balance the budget. Does the government plan to listen to common sense and use its next budget to achieve that balance in the near term?
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