When I submit a $100 expense to the taxpayers of Canada, I have to sign off on it. When our public servants—the same ones who were affected so severely and work so hard for us—submit a tiny expense within their departments, they have to sign off on it, but nobody signed off on what appears to be at least a $500 million miss, which go much, much higher by the time we're done. I think we're talking about expenses in the neighbourhood of $1 billion to get the system up and running to the satisfaction of what officials hoped it would be be able to do at the outset.
On June 19th, 2018. See this statement in context.