Health committee  I'm splitting the time, if I may. Thank you. I'm really struggling with this. Salt is an urgent public health issue. Canadians consume 3,400 milligrams—more than double the recommended, at 1,500. I'm going to come back at this by asking, why aren't we going after a mandatory

Health committee  Right now, all I can say is we have extremely aggressive targets to meet by 2016 to bring down our sodium from the current level of 3,400 to 2,300, and we are—

Health committee  But 1,500 mg a day is not the same as 3,400 mg a day.

Natural Resources committee   provincial jurisdictions, with a significant presence in British Columbia, Ontario, and Atlantic Canada and 3,400 Canadian employees coast to coast. Our operations have deep roots in Canada, more than 50 years of history in B.C., and this year we celebrate 100 years of operations at Union

Official Languages committee   language minority communities. Thanks to this investment, by 2013 we expect 15,000 health professionals to have received French and English second language training in Quebec. We also expect to see close to an additional 3,400 French-speaking health professionals working outside

House debate  . That $122,000 could have paid for other things, such as the salaries of several nurses, for example. How about the two VIA Rail press releases that cost taxpayers $3,400 to draft and post online? That is another connected Conservative consultant. It is quite astounding when we look at some

Public Accounts committee  There are nearly 3,400 projects.

Public Accounts committee  Very well. Do those buildings cover all of Canada or a specific region? There must be some enormous buildings, given the ratio of 351 to 3,400.

Public Accounts committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the comments made by Madame Faille as well. Just to respond to a point with regard to the example I used of $3,400 for a press release of 1,300 words, that pertained to outside consultants. I actually have a great deal of respect

Public Accounts committee   by talking about a press release that costs $3,400. It's ridiculous, because no press release goes out without hours and hours of research and writing. I don't want to belittle anybody's work. I don't think it's necessary. This is a very reasonable response to the member's request

Public Accounts committee   an example of how this government spent $3,400 for a 1,300-word press release. I'm not sure I would appreciate any type of accusations of the cost implications of this request. This is a committee that's doing work on behalf of parliamentarians for a pertinent report on an issue

Sustaining Canada's Economic Recovery Act   to realize that the government has really mismanaged taxpayer money. Last week I had the opportunity to highlight two examples of where the government has really misspent and they highlight a bigger problem. The government outsourced the VIA Rail press releases at a cost of $3,400

Points of Order  Mr. Speaker, I am getting up on a point of order to ask for unanimous consent with respect to a question I asked during question period. It pertained to consultants charging the government and taxpayers $3,400 for two press releases that contained about 1,300 words

Government Spending  Mr. Speaker, this borrow-and-spend government is addicted to overpriced consultants. Last fall, the Conservatives hired Greg Gormick to write two press releases. He was paid $1,200 for one and $2,200 for the other. That is $3,400 for 1,300 words. It is also worth noting

Citizenship and Immigration committee   sitting at $3,400. We did a survey of all of the law societies across the country. On average, a CSIC member pays 34% more than the average that a lawyer pays--