John Baird at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On April 9th, 2014. See this statement in context.

April 9th, 2014 / 3:50 p.m.

Conservative

John Baird Conservative Ottawa West—Nepean, ON

We do, actually. I expected you would ask this question and I have some numbers for you.

We have put grants and contributions into four categories. These are all preliminary results, and I'm happy to share them with you and members of the committee.

For me, under grants and contributions expenditures, what preliminary results show is that we spent approximately 96% of the budget. The frozen allotment for the crisis pool quick release mechanism is more than ninety—

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