Pierre Poilievre at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On August 11th, 2020. See this statement in context.

August 11th, 2020 / 4:10 p.m.

Conservative

Pierre Poilievre Conservative Carleton, ON

I find it astonishing that you didn't know anything about the details of a billion-dollar program in your department until you got to the cabinet meeting where that proposal was presented.

I was the minister in your department back in 2015. If a billion-dollar program in my department were going to cabinet, I would have known about it before it got there.

Just to confirm, you knew nothing about the decision to give this program to WE until it got to cabinet. Is that what you're telling us?

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