Evidence of meeting #46 for Public Accounts in the 40th Parliament, 3rd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was institutions.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

MPs speaking

Also speaking

John Wiersema  Deputy Auditor General, Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Michael Horgan  Deputy Minister, Department of Finance
Michèle Bourque  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
Gary Walker  Assistant Superintendent, Corporate Services Sector, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Diane Lafleur  General Director, Financial Sector Policy Branch, Department of Finance

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Deputy Minister, Department of Finance

Michael Horgan

—that other people went.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Joe Volpe

I wanted to say that, just simply because there are a lot of people who continually ask. So I said, okay, the first chance I get, the Deputy Minister of Finance will be the one who will answer that question, because we don't want it to be construed as a partisan query, but rather one that would be—

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Deputy Minister, Department of Finance

Michael Horgan

I understand.

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Liberal

The Chair Liberal Joe Volpe

Okay.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Horgan, Mr. Wiersema, Madame Bourque, Mr. Walker, and of course, Madame Lafleur, Madame Cheng, and Mr. Domingue. We didn't mean to leave you out of the equation at all, but members ask questions wherever they like and they chose as they chose. What can we do? We try to be like your SAC committee, fairly flexible, and arrive at something that's consensual.

Thank you very much for being with us this afternoon.

The meeting is adjourned.