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House Hansard - 338

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
September 18, 2024 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Ms. Melissa Lantsman (Thornhill, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 2:24:26 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, carbon tax Carney is just nine days into his role as the de facto finance minister, and he is already cashing in on his conflicts of interest to enrich himself at taxpayers' expense. Yesterday we learned that his firm is about to get a $10-billion sweetheart deal from his friends in the Liberal government to run his fund. We cannot even make this up. Every day, there are new questions about his conflicts. Just days after his official appointment, his close friend the CEO of Telesat got more than $2 billion of Canadians' tax dollars to build a broadband network that other firms could have built for half that price. While Canadians struggle to put food on the table, it has never been better to be a well-connected Liberal. It is time to come clean. How much does carbon tax Carney and his firm at Brookfield pocket in management fees from taxpayers in this new fund? If the Liberals do not plan on answering us, I am sure the Ethics Commissioner can shed some light on the brazen corruption of Canada's unelected finance minister, who is gunning for the PM's job. In the meantime, they get rich and Canadians get fleeced.
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Context: House Hansard - 338 - Sep/18/24
Mr. James Bezan (Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, CPC)
  • Sep/18/24 3:47:34 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present a petition today that is signed by Canadians who are very concerned about a film that has come out, which was funded by the Government of Canada through the Canada Media Fund and by TVO, called Russians at War. The film paints a nice picture of the Russians fighting in Ukraine without laying out all of the war crimes that they are committing and the illegal invasion that they have started. The petitioners are calling upon the Government of Canada to get back all of the taxpayers' money, the $345,000, that went to the film's producer, Ms. Trofimova, who was employed by Russia Today in the past, which is sanctioned by the Government of Canada. She used those monies to bring out this misinformation campaign. The petitioners are calling on the government to audit all the programs that they have currently, like the Canada Media Fund, to see how taxpayer dollars were used to further the Russians' interest right here in Canada. They are requesting that both CSIS and the RCMP do an investigation on whether or not there was any international or Canadian law, or Ukrainian law for that matter, that was violated. Finally, they want the RCMP to seize all material so that it can be used to go forward with the investigation on any war crimes that she may have captured on film but did not actually put into the documentary. The documentary is being aired now at the Toronto International Film Festival and other places in Canada.
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