“Mr. Speaker, my colleague, as the shadow minister for defence procurement, has reviewed Bill C-40 very closely. He mentioned that paragraph 9(2) of the bill would give the associate minister for defence procurement absolute power over the Defence Investment Agency. We have never seen a Crown corporation be under the thumb of the government like this, where it “must do as the Minister directs”. Not even the CBC has that type of government influence over it as a Crown corporation. As the member said, there are 13 exceptions added in here as reasons the government, or the minister, may not want to run a competition, and in that, the minister would also be given a get-out-of-jail-free card. When we are talking about having a billion dollars at the disposal of the minister and the Defence Investment Agency, does my colleague believe that there is open opportunity here for increased political interference and corruption?”
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The average of Signal, Relevance, Respect and Clarity is 79. The grade is held to 70, 30 above Signal.
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Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 29 wordsthat is an excellent question from my colleague, who is the shadow minister for national defence.1It is my privilege to work so closely with him on a committee.ThanksClaims · 39 wordsAbsolutely, we have seen a long list of Liberal government corruption scandals, Unearned certaintyand this, with the lack of accountability and the lack of oversight, would only open it up.It would give unprecedented powers and a lack of accountability.Positioning · 22 wordsI will not accept it.Conservatives will not accept it, and I challenge Canadians to not accept this complete lack of accountability.Positioning
