“Liberal MPs are blocking our committee from investigating $300 million spent on an electronic prescription program. They are shutting down meetings and stopping the health minister from speaking. I want them to allow a full investigation.”

“Mr. Speaker, the Liberals on the health committee are blocking an investigation into the $300-million PrescribeIT scandal. For over a month, they have stopped the committee from holding any new meetings to get answers. They have shut down meetings. They have turned off committee cameras. They have blocked the health minister from testifying. Now, in a disgusting political stunt, they are using Canadians suffering with HIV as an excuse to bury the truth. If the Liberals have nothing to hide, will they come clean today and allow a full investigation into the PrescribeIT $300-million scandal?”

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“The government wasted 300 million dollars on a failed health project. Liberals keep blocking our efforts to find out what happened. I want the minister to stop this and let us question the people involved.”

“Mr. Speaker, despite handing 300 million tax dollars over to Canada Health Infoway for the government’s failed PrescribeIT project, we can see that the Liberals have no interest in finding out why or how this money was wasted. The Liberals have voted down every attempt to get the answers. The Conservatives have been clear. We will work through the summer to get to the bottom of this. Canadians want to hear the minister and the former CEO provide testimony. Will the minister tell her Liberal colleagues to end their obstruction and get to the bottom of this scandal?”

“Canada Health Infoway has wasted one billion dollars of public money and refuses to share documents with our committee. How long will the review of this group take, and how much will it cost? The minister should stop giving them 50 million dollars a year right now.”

“Mr. Speaker, Canada Health Infoway blew $300 million of taxpayer money on PrescribeIT. They have blown $1 billion over 10 years with nothing tangible to show for it. For six weeks, they have failed to produce the documents the health committee has ordered them to produce. The health minister now says this totally dysfunctional organization will undergo a mandate review. Can she tell us how long the review will take and how much money the review will cost? Why does she not take the obvious decision today and pull their $50 million of yearly funding now?”

“The Liberals must stop blocking the health committee. They are covering up 300 million dollars wasted on a failed prescription program that enriched their friends. Canadians want answers about what they are hiding.”

“Mr. Speaker, it is week eight of the Liberals’ obstruction at the health committee. They are desperately covering up the $300-million PrescribeIT scandal and the hundreds of millions wasted on a failed program that made Liberal insiders rich and did not fill prescriptions. Angry Canadians are calling out the Liberals and asking them to stop the obstruction, but apparently they are more afraid of getting yelled at by the Prime Minister again. The Liberals must end this two-month cover-up so that the Conservatives can get the answers Canadians deserve. What are the Liberals hiding?”