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House Hansard - 327

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
June 7, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Ms. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Terrebonne, BQ)
  • Jun/7/24 11:39:40 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, this week the Auditor General tabled three reports. Her observations never change. Once again, we see untendered contracts, conflicts of interest, laxity, and negligence. The situation has reached a point where the Auditor General made only one recommendation in her initial report: that her recommendations be followed. That says a lot about her exasperation as the person responsible for ensuring the sound management of our public finances. Do the Liberals realize that every Auditor General's report has proven them incapable of running the government?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Charles Sousa (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Lib.)
  • Jun/7/24 11:40:14 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the work done by the Auditor General. We thank her for her recommendations. We are all concerned about ensuring that there be transparency, accountability and integrity in all the work we do. There have been recommendations made by the Auditor General, the ombudsman and a number of others that reinforce concerns the government shares, which is why this review was initiated. Therefore, we will take every step necessary to provide proper training to ensure that we have taken the steps to provide integrity on this as we go forward.
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Ms. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné (Terrebonne, BQ)
  • Jun/7/24 11:40:50 a.m.
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Mr. Speaker, whistle-blowers, repeated warnings, criticism from a senior official: all of these red flags about the management of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, were being waved for a long time. There were conflicts of interest. Projects ineligible for funding received funding. Once again, taxpayer money has been recklessly squandered. The department received the minutes and conflict of interest declarations, and so it knew what was going on. The minister knew all that and did nothing. Would the minister have shut down SDTC if the Auditor General had not tabled such a scathing report?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Tom Kmiec (Calgary Shepard, CPC)
  • Jun/7/24 12:02:17 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, that member's response does not make any sense. That organization, in 2017, got a clean bill of health from the Auditor General. Then when the government took it over, it dumped the chair within three days, a record amount of time. That new board member gave $217,000 to a company she had a direct relationship with. The question remains: Will the government then release all of the documents connected to this slush fund and call in the RCMP?
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Context: House Hansard - 327 - Jun/7/24
Mr. Ryan Turnbull (Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Lib.)
  • Jun/7/24 12:02:52 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, it is appropriate for us all, as a government and members of Parliament, to demand the highest governance standards when dealing with public funds. That is what our government has done from day one. As soon as we learned about allegations of mismanagement in this independent organization, we ordered independent reviews done, fact-finding missions. We collaborated with the Auditor General in her review, and now we are moving forward with the recommendations that the Auditor General has made, which include folding the organization in to have better transparency, accountability and oversight.
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