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House Hansard - 284

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
February 16, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 284 - Feb/16/24
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Lib.)
  • Feb/16/24 11:23:33 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member is quite right to talk about cost of protecting the health and safety of Canadians, including during a pandemic that cost tens of thousands of people their lives, including hundreds in his own riding. Millions of people lost their jobs, and we had to protect the integrity of our borders. Despite how urgent and important this situation was, the Auditor General of Canada clearly indicated that it was unacceptable that public servants from the CBSA did not do their job properly.
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Context: House Hansard - 284 - Feb/16/24
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Lib.)
  • Feb/16/24 11:35:21 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, our colleague is quite right in pointing out the essential work of the Auditor General. We need the Auditor General to do the kind of investigation that she was able to do over the past few months in co-operation with CBSA officials. She did her work. She tabled her report on Monday. Her findings are shocking and alarming. Her recommendations must be taken into account. Most of her recommendations have already been in place for a few weeks.
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Context: House Hansard - 284 - Feb/16/24
Ms. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Terrebonne, BQ)
  • Feb/16/24 11:36:55 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, apparently the bookkeeping has been bad since 2010. Maybe this should have been addressed sooner. The wasteful spending on ArriveCAN continued after the pandemic under the CBSA's new president. At least $12 million more was invested in contracts with consultants, just for ArriveCAN. Clearly there is still a complete lack of accountability at the CBSA today. Will the government put the CBSA under third-party management?
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Context: House Hansard - 284 - Feb/16/24
Hon. Jean-Yves Duclos (Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Lib.)
  • Feb/16/24 11:44:44 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, the member points to the valuable public service, and he is entirely right; public servants worked extremely hard during the pandemic to protect the health and safety of millions of Canadians and millions of jobs. That being said, it is not an excuse for a very few of them in the CBSA not to have done their job appropriately. On Monday, the Auditor General was very clear as to why that was not done. We obviously took into account her recommendations. We have implemented many of them and will implement the others in days to come.
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Context: House Hansard - 284 - Feb/16/24
Ms. Pam Damoff (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Consular Affairs), Lib.)
  • Feb/16/24 12:07:58 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, it is unfortunate the hon. member calls the summit that was held last week a photo op. I and my colleagues were there and actually heard from stakeholders. We heard from insurance companies, and I spoke to one of the chiefs of police who said that not only is this important but that we need to do this more often and formalize these kinds of dialogues. The only way we will solve the problem of auto theft is by working together, by working with insurance companies and working with border services, and making the kinds of investments like $120 million to Ontario through the initiative to take action against guns and violence, which the minister just introduced recently, and $28 million to support the work of the CBSA.
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