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Evidence of meeting #122 for Public Accounts in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was aircraft.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #122 for Public Accounts in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was aircraft.
A video is available from Parliament.
5:25 p.m.
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5:25 p.m.
NDP
David Christopherson NDP Hamilton Centre, ON
It was one of the best put-downs I ever heard, and I tell that story whenever I can.
If you're out there, Laurie, I hope you're enjoying your retirement.
Thank you, Chair.
December 3rd, 2018 / 5:25 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Kevin Sorenson
Thank you very much, Mr. Christopherson. We're very aware of your rants here. I just wasn't aware that you were also a stand-up comedian. Thank you for bringing a little bit of levity to our day here.
I want to thank our Auditor General's office as well as our Department of National Defence for being here today. We rely on you. We rely on our air force. All our men and women who serve in our military, we're very thankful for in our country. We want to see it remain strong. We want to see that the questions we have are being answered and that we can have confidence that the concerns brought forward in the Auditor General's report, which are now the concerns of Canadians, are being answered by our department.
There have been a number of questions posed today. My clerk brought up the constitutional ability that our committee has, so we do expect those answers. There are ways. If some of them are deemed security issues, it can be in camera, if it's that. It doesn't sound as if it was that, but if that is part of it, there are still ways to have some of these questions answered.
Thank you for being here. I think today has been.... We've had people on all sides who have been involved in our military and have made it, I think, an excellent meeting. I thank you for being here and helping to aid the committee in that. We appreciate it.
Before you go, I've just been told that our meeting on Wednesday—and I have mentioned this to you earlier—dealing with sexual harassment, or sexual problems within the military, will be cancelled. We're expecting a couple hours of voting, and that's possible, but we'll just cancel it. You can expect to come back sometime after Christmas, and we thank you for your willingness to do that.
We now stand adjourned.