Mr. Speaker, we will have to cut and paste Hansard , but thank you.
There are further examples of employees working for the government retiring on pensions and then going to work for one of the moving companies.
Further information sent to the government in an attempt to win a share of the business by an excluded move management company and answers from the government ended up in the hands of the van lines.
This is not right. As the biggest mover in the country we should be receiving the best price on behalf of the taxpayers of Canada. At a time when we are looking at major cutbacks to military expenditures, we need to be as cost effective as possible. We must fight waste and inefficiency.
The Ottawa Citizen did a series of articles on this issue. In an editorial on January 28, 1994 the Citizen called for a Commons committee inquiry. I join that call for an inquiry. We cannot as a government afford to waste $25 million or more in these times of fiscal restraint.