John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On February 27th, 2012. See this statement in context.

February 27th, 2012 / 5:10 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

I think I'm almost out of time. I'll just make two points to conclude.

I certainly agree with you that allowing MPs to add money to estimates is a terrible idea. I think that's what they have in the U.S. I think they call them “riders”. There'd be a feeding frenzy to get money into everyone's riding. I don't think we want to go there.

The last point is I think the U.S. is way ahead of us in terms of having government openness on its websites and being able to drill down. Are you aware of that in the U.S.? Would you agree that they are way ahead of Canada in this respect?

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