“Madam Speaker, I want to thank my colleague from Edmonton West for his very strong intervention pointing out all the political interference we have witnessed already from the Liberals. My colleague is the chair of the government operations committee, or, as we like to call it, the mighty OGGO. He hears from the Parliamentary Budget Officer on a frequent basis. The Parliamentary Budget Officer, in the last week or so, was criticizing the government for its overuse of Crown corporations to hide its ongoing structural deficits by moving things underneath Crown corporations, especially the spending that is going to take place under National Defence. It is going to turn spending into assets, which does not protect taxpayers. I wonder if my colleague could comment on that.”
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Claims 67%Procedure 7%The ask 26%
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Madam Speaker, Claims · 27 wordsyes, there were a lot of concerns expressed by the PBO with respect to transparency, the government’s ability to hide debt and other issues with Crown corporations.1Procedure · 8 wordsOne of the other issues we heard about, ProcedureClaims · 55 wordswhich the member for Winnipeg North was going on about, is meeting the 2%.Partly on pointAt committee, the Coast Guard came and told us that its money is now being counted as defence spending, even though it is for activities such as counting fish and scientific studies.23This is the 2% the government is bragging about.The ask · 32 wordsAgain, it needs to focus on procuring the weapons and equipment that our defence department and our men and women in uniform need, not playing that counting fish is a defence activity.
