John McCallum at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On March 14th, 2012. See this statement in context.

March 14th, 2012 / 4:35 p.m.

Liberal

John McCallum Liberal Markham—Unionville, ON

Thank you.

I'd like to come back to the question of AECL that was raised by one of my NDP colleagues.

The estimates indicate that “government contingencies” are supposed to be appropriations to provide the government with sufficient flexibility to meet urgent or unforeseen expenditures. May I ask you to give a little more detail on what was urgent or unforeseen about that expenditure?

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