Dan McTeague at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.

March 5th, 2009 / 11:20 a.m.

Liberal

Dan McTeague Liberal Pickering—Scarborough East, ON

If this money that you've just announced is for Budget 2009, why do the main estimates say that Treasury Board vote 35 exists “to supplement other appropriations and to provide any appropriate Ministers with appropriations for initiatives announced in the Budget of January 27, 2009”.

The Treasury Board briefing that we had the other day, which I appreciate some of you may have been a part of, confirmed that this money could be used on anything, by any department. How, then, can you claim this is anything but a blank cheque?

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