Jacques Gourde at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

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

December 11th, 2020 / 1:50 p.m.

Conservative

Jacques Gourde Conservative Lévis—Lotbinière, QC

I have the impression that you were caught between a rock and a hard place. Many companies wanted to do business with you, and you still had to respond to them. Perhaps the government exerted some pressure to ensure the production of certain required products, because otherwise the products had to be purchased elsewhere.

Was there more pressure from the government or from the companies?

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