Discussion · Government Orders
Cheryl Gallant Conservative
“The government is using borrowed tax dollars to invest in defence companies it buys equipment from. How do we know taxpayers are getting the best value? This is a conflict of interest because the people buying the equipment have money in the companies selling it.”
“Mr. Speaker, with the federal government investing, using borrowed taxpayer dollars, in the very companies that will be tendering bids and offering their models of equipment for purchase by the Canadian government, how do we know that we will get the best value for our dollar? How is it not a conflict of interest that the very people making the decisions on what equipment the government is going to buy have money invested in these defence companies?”
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Mr. Speaker, with the federal government investing, using borrowed taxpayer dollars, in the very companies that will be tendering bids and offering their models of equipment for purchase by the Canadian government, how do we know that we will get the best value for our dollar? How is it not a conflict of interest that the very people making the decisions on what equipment the government is going to buy have money invested in these defence companies?