I'll read it into the record:
Given the Government has spent $9 million dollars of taxpayer money on a luxury condo located on “Billionaires Row” in New York City for the Consul General, the committee order Global Affairs Canada to produce a list, within fourteen days of this motion being adopted, of all properties including the addresses and listing prices of those that were visited or considered for purchase for the official residence of the consulate general in New York, and the committee call the following witnesses to testify:
Minister of Global Affairs, Mélanie Joly
Consul General of Canada in New York, United States, Tom Clark
The Deputy Minister of Global Affairs and other representatives from the department.
If I may, I would like to quickly speak to the motion that I just read into the record. I think what has come to light over the past few years under this government's procurement practices is extremely disturbing, but perhaps not surprising. Whether it has been the hundreds of millions of dollars going to Liberal insiders, or their friends at McKinsey getting special treatment in receiving government contracts, or former Liberal MPs and future Liberal leader hopefuls like Frank Baylis, whose company got a massive contract during the pandemic for ventilators that went unused.... It cost the government hundreds of millions of dollars, only to be sold as scrap metal.
We have seen the complete lack of spending controls on major procurements, including arrive scam. Every step along the way, this government has tried to cover up these consequences of their failed governance. We know that they voted against the audit of the ArriveCAN app, swearing that there was nothing to find—