Public Accounts committee   for the kind of expertise that your firm represents, as was done under the former Harper government. In the words of the late Jim Flaherty, for whom I had great respect, private sector advice is critical to helping the government conduct its work. In that case, it was a $90,000-a-day

Public Accounts committee   Deloitte $90,000 a day to teach them how to cut costs. There was a quote from the late Jim Flaherty, who was the finance minister. He said, “Private sector advice is valuable, it’s important, it’s essential.” Can I perhaps get your viewpoints on how the private sector does lend a hand

Industry committee  . You also served for—God bless him and rest his soul—former finance minister Jim Flaherty as an economic adviser during the economic crisis in 2008-09. Is that not correct?

Industry committee   Mulroney, Stephen Harper, and at least three times by Jim Flaherty, my predecessor, for different positions. With the claim that this is a Green-Liberal slush fund, as Mr. Barrett has claimed in the House of Commons multiple times, this starts to look like it's very much fishing

Transport committee  Thank you. That was exactly how Mr. Sabia described it as well. It was simply about asking for input. You mentioned at the outset, Mr. Barton, that you also provided advice to then minister Jim Flaherty and previous prime minister Stephen Harper. Minister Flaherty

Transport committee   governments, as you identified, in 2010 with former finance minister Jim Flaherty, and once again in 2013 with former prime minister Harper on the Canadian advisory committee on the public service—you have had a lot of experience over the years with federal infrastructure and abroad. Could

Public Services and Procurement   with Dominic Barton or McKinsey & Company. Yesterday, the member decided to have a three-hour debate inside the chamber on this issue, and what we found out is that there was a cozy and comfortable relationship between Dominic Barton and Jim Flaherty. I will remind the member opposite

Committees of the House   spoke gave me an answer that Dominic had a relationship with Jim Flaherty. Who was Jim Flaherty? He was the minister of finance under Stephen Harper. I thought this was all about Liberal friends. Mr. Flaherty was not a Liberal.

Committees of the House   do not think this is necessarily what this issue is about. For the Conservatives, the issue is more about character assassination than it is about how much money has gone out. After all, they had given contracts to the very same company. The relationship with Jim Flaherty

Government Operations committee   properly by itself. “The fact is that we feel we need to have outside advice,” Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Tuesday. “It isn't good, quite frankly, for a government to just look at itself. There's a lot of expertise in Canada on the subject of public-sector productivity

Housing   that is driving first-time homebuyers out of the dream of owning a home. It is Conservative policy that got us here, and the worst policy was when Jim Flaherty double-crossed the Prime Minister, double-crossed his caucus and cancelled all the income trust. The one he did not do was the real

Information & Ethics committee  That's the truth. Jim Flaherty was working on financial literacy. Do you know that I still receive emails from certain members sent from their Assistant 1 accounts? I made a donation to the party, but I receive emails from constituency offices. Interesting, isn't it? Perhaps we

Information & Ethics committee   combined. I'd like to know more about the system; I think it's very interesting. I'll tell you something, Mr. Barrett. Ten years ago, I donated $50 to the Conservative Party. That was in Jim Flaherty's day.

Business of Supply   to answer a very serious question. When the Conservatives decided to go after income trusts in their first mandate, and Jim Flaherty undermined the Conservative commitment to not trust income trusts, the one thing he did not touch was the real estate income trusts, or REITs. Why did

Budget Implementation Act, 2021, No. 1   world-class wines. We know that the excise exemption that was created under the late Jim Flaherty in 2007 when he was the finance minister has been important to the success of our 100% Canadian wine industry. I am very pleased to see our government has committed $101 million over