“I want the health minister to admit she wasted $300 million. Spending that money was bad. I think it was very bad.”
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A bill aiming to ensure health information technology is interoperable, secure, and person-centered, and to prohibit data blocking by health IT vendors. During discussion, the Conservatives criticized the Liberals for wasting nearly $300 million on a national prescribing software project that failed, while the Liberals defended the project as having been introduced under the previous government at the request of provinces and territories, and said that lessons were learned from its failure.
“A private company would fire someone who wasted money like this. The government should too. The Liberals spent a lot of your money and won't explain how they screwed up. I want that spending investigated. They should tell us what happened.”