Madam Speaker, after years of wilful blindness, Ottawa is finally taking action on the Driver Inc. scam, but it is not doing nearly enough.
We were told that 100,000 inspections had been done in the trucking industry, but in the end, the government was forced to admit that it did only 1,000, not 100,000. That is one hundred times less. When we pressed the government further, it finally admitted that it had not done 1,000 inspections, but rather 650. The rest were more like outreach. As for any fines issued, they were never paid. It is a good thing that ridicule never killed anyone, but Driver Inc. drivers do.
When will the government get serious about tackling this problem?