Kelly McCauley at the Government Operations and Estimates Committee

On November 1st, 2018. See this statement in context.

November 1st, 2018 / 4:55 p.m.

Conservative

Kelly McCauley Conservative Edmonton West, AB

Let me ask you about central vote 5. There's a $1.1-million contingency emergency fund to enable ESDC as grant payments for support for labour market information.

I'm just curious. It's an $800-million-a-year department. Why is there an emergency $1 million? They couldn't find it.... They use it for labour market opinions. What's the big rush for it? Is that $1 million linked in any way to the Stats Canada issue going on right now with the deep dive StatsCan is doing into banking accounts?

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