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House Hansard - 337

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 17, 2024 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 337 - Sep/17/24
Ms. Elizabeth May (Saanich—Gulf Islands, GP)
  • Sep/17/24 11:53:57 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I completely agree with the comments made by my colleague from Windsor West, and those from my colleague from the Bloc Québécois. I want to take this opportunity to congratulate my Bloc Québécois colleagues. It is clear that the public service had eroded. Work was contracted out to big companies, sometimes foreign ones. Billions of dollars were paid to companies such as Deloitte, KPMG or McKinsey, who are profit-driven, and this resulted in the erosion of our own services and our public service. Further to that point, Kristian Firth's testimony here in the House was dreadful. We need to call for a change in how things are done. A tremendous effort needs to be made to rebuild the public service so that it has the capacity to provide the services that Canadians need.
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Context: House Hansard - 337 - Sep/17/24
Ms. Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné
  • Sep/17/24 11:55:16 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, I can only reiterate what I said earlier. The problem is that the size of the public service exploded, but so did the number of contracts awarded to consultants. Finally, we are potentially paying twice for the same services. We know that sometimes a department is equipped to provide a service and another department hires consultants to do it. This happens regularly within the federal government.
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Context: House Hansard - 337 - Sep/17/24
Mr. Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay, NDP)
  • Sep/17/24 12:25:10 p.m.
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Madam Speaker, I agree with my colleague. I think it is ironic when the Conservatives try to talk about respect for the civil service when all they ever do is denigrate the civil service. They started this trend, as the member for Saanich—Gulf Islands just mentioned. Where is it going next? In the international trade committee, we are talking about the CBSA assessment and revenue management system, a new digital system, sort of like ArriveCAN on steroids, and it is being brought to us by Deloitte, not by the civil service. We are undercutting the CBSA again, and I am wondering if the member could spend some time talking about that trend.
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Context: House Hansard - 337 - Sep/17/24
Hon. Anita Anand (President of the Treasury Board, Lib.)
  • Sep/17/24 2:55:53 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, we have the best public service in the world. Every time, we continue to invest in Canadians, in the most vulnerable members of our society, in families, in children and in seniors. What are the Conservatives doing? They vote against those measures every time. We are here for Canadians and to build a really strong country.
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