Philip Lawrence at the Public Accounts Committee

On May 3rd, 2022. See this statement in context.

May 3rd, 2022 / 12:30 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

Thank you.

I'm going to split my time with Mr. McCauley.

I have just a couple of hopefully quick questions here.

For Mr. Huppé, when we look at the reopening of the account, it strikes me as strange because there certainly have been material events that have occurred in the last 20, 30 or 50 years, yet this is the first time we've reopened the books.

I'm curious. Were none of those other events that have happened—and we could go through them—over the last 50 or 100 years...? We've never, to my knowledge, reopened those books. What made this particular tribunal decision have so much more importance than, say, September 11?

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