Diane Bourgeois at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

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

March 5th, 2009 / 12:25 p.m.

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Diane Bourgeois Bloc Terrebonne—Blainville, QC

If I understand this correctly, the two amounts, one of $750 million and the other $3 billion, are amounts that the minister or Treasury Board can now allocate in an arbitrary fashion. This is done arbitrarily and they don't have to provide reasons for the use of those funds.

Is that correct?

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