Alexandre Boulerice at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.

November 24th, 2011 / 4:55 p.m.

NDP

Alexandre Boulerice NDP Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, QC

I am reading the document you provided to us. First, I would like to thank you again for being here with us.

We are studying the supplementary estimates (B). They are on the order of $6.6 billion. That is a lot of money that was impossible to foresee earlier. Last year, in 2010-2011, the supplementary estimates (B) came to $3.1 billion. The budget from last year has been more than doubled.

Do you have an explanation? Why this sudden leap in unforeseeable supplementary estimates?

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