Mr. Speaker, it is nothing but waste. But it does not end there. The government is spending billions of dollars on contracts with no competitive bids.
Contracts are handed out, according to the auditor general, to people who are identified before the contract is granted. We have heard of a case in which $3,000 per day was paid to a person on a non-competitively bid contract.
Is $3,000 a day to an individual on a non-competitive contract value for money? Who is looking after the taxpayer?