Mr. Speaker, here is a reason the government needs to find that $3.1 billion.
This week the Ontario Superior Court ordered a further increase in the award of damages the government must pay Envoy Relocation Services, now over $40 million in total.
In addition, it ordered the government to pay the full costs of $4.7 million because, in the words of the court:
reprehensible...conduct of the...[Crown] supplemented and aggravated by...conduct during the litigation.
How can the government defend this reprehensible behaviour, leaving taxpayers to foot the bill?