He knows that.
Evidence of meeting #144 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
A video is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #144 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
A video is available from Parliament.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Mr. Perkins, you are welcome to have the floor at the appropriate time.
Go ahead, Mr. Drouin.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
He wants somebody to say something, but he doesn't know that. He thinks somebody was suddenly appointed out of nowhere to a Governor in Council appointment, that somebody was just randomly appointed like this, without exception, without applying—
Conservative
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
That is ridiculous, and we know that for a fact. The witness has corrected that record. He knows that.
Conservative
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
He knows that. Perhaps he was collaborating with the chair—
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
The truth is the first answer, not the twelfth.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
—because I know they love to donate to the same candidate. They're two Tories collaborating in order to put this on us.
It's ridiculous. They're Tory donors collaborating together.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Chair, how can you let that happen? That makes no sense.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Mr. Drouin is skilfully plowing through it.
Mr. Drouin, you have the floor.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Chair, I know it's late. Sometimes we say things we don't want to say when it's late, because we're angry and we want to go to bed and everybody's tired.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I'm not angry. I'm disappointed in the government.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I'm ready to go until 11:00 p.m. tonight if we need to go until 11:00 p.m. tonight. My point to this motion is that I wish we had gone—
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
I seek unanimous consent to go to 11:00 p.m. tonight.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
The suggestion was made. I'm just accepting the—
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Well, you know, you may not have constituents here, but I may have constituents in the back rooms here, so I want to be careful when I say that—not that it matters for my election purposes, but I'm still respectful of their time.
So, if we had chosen another strategy instead of going from zero to 100 miles an hour right away, I would have been in agreement. I would have agreed with the Conservatives' strategy as to whether Mr. Bains had indeed answered—