Jacques Gourde at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On October 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2009 / 4 p.m.

Conservative

Jacques Gourde Conservative Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC

So you want to get the details on the 3,000 projects within 10 days. I thought it was the provinces who provided the federal government with progress reports on the status of projects so that federal officials can then validate each of the projects in order to make payments, as bills are submitted.

Given the fact that we are responsible for more than 3,000 projects, as you have said, it seems like quite a challenge for a single department. What do you think?

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