Rick Perkins at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On December 12th, 2023. See this statement in context.

December 12th, 2023 / 5:10 p.m.

Conservative

Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS

That's $8.3 million plus another $1.4 million from DFO in May 2022.

That's a total of almost $10 million in about a year and a half, so I want to ask you this question. When the SDTC investment committee considered your proposal, or the proposal from the Verschuren Centre, for another $2.2 million in 2022, did you think that was a conflict of interest?

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