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Jean-Denis Garon

  • Member of Parliament
  • Member of Parliament
  • Bloc Québécois
  • Mirabel
  • Quebec
  • Voting Attendance: 62%
  • Expenses Last Quarter: $216,581.38

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Context: House Hansard - 326 - Jun/6/24
Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • Jun/6/24 4:40:04 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, my colleague made a good speech and underlined the fact that Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, was necessary for the development of many technological innovations. I want to remind her that that is why the Liberals should not have scrapped the foundation by allowing wrongdoing and putting up with it for so long. The government cannot dissociate itself from what happened at SDTC for a very simple reason. Under the law, Minister Bains had the power at the time to request specific audits every year to verify whether the funding agreements and the rules were being followed. During all those years, that Liberal minister never once got up in the morning and decided to request an audit and check for himself. How is it that this Liberal minister of innovation, science and industry at the time did nothing when he could have done something? How is it that with this government it always takes a report by the Auditor General for it to finally rise in the House and say that something was mismanaged?
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Context: House Hansard - 326 - Jun/6/24
Mr. Jean-Denis Garon (Mirabel, BQ)
  • Jun/6/24 10:57:37 a.m.
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Madam Speaker, yesterday, former minister Navdeep Bains appeared before the Standing Committee on Industry and Technology. The Auditor General's report very clearly indicates that the minister at the time had the power to request that Sustainable Development Technology Canada, or SDTC, be audited to see what was happening, so I asked the minister how many audits he had requested. Not only did the former minister not respond, but we know that he did not request any audits. He told us that this was a completely independent fund. What does my colleague think that Minister Bains should have done at the time when allegations of wrongdoing were already circulating in his department?
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Context: House Hansard - 142 - Dec/6/22
Mr. Jean-Denis Garon
  • Dec/6/22 3:11:38 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to read a quote from the Auditor General's statement: “With the audits we are releasing today, the focus of our work is shifting to look at how federal departments and organizations managed programs and services for Canadians as the pandemic continued to evolve”. Today, in the House, the Minister of National Revenue questioned—
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