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Human Resources Development May 4th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I would beg that we would stay away from that kind of action, not just that kind of statement.
She thought that Deloitte & Touche's incredible credibility across this country might just rub off on her. That was a vain hope. It did not. Her claims were not backed up by fact. Deloitte & Touche never even saw the final report. She knows that there was no substantive difference.
Are any of this minister's words to be believed?
Human Resources Development May 4th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, on February 2 Deloitte & Touche came out with that scathing report. The minister says that she in fact implemented those plans. That is not true. There were no substantive changes between February 2—
Human Resources Development May 4th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, yesterday the HRDC minister said that if I had been at committee I would have seen that Deloitte & Touche had endorsed her six point plan. In fact, the minutes of the committee do not bear that out. They said no such thing. In fact, their representative, Mr. Potts, said that his firm never even saw the final draft. He said “We did not perform any review or analysis of that action plan”.
Why does the minister not just step aside and take up another profession that she seems to be getting so good at, something like writing fiction? How about it?
Human Resources Development May 3rd, 2000
Mr. Speaker, this minister knows she created those extraordinary circumstances. She just said that Deloitte & Touche said “my understanding is that the minister has taken the recommendation”. She never even gave them the decency of giving it back to them to read and make any recommendations on.
It is just great to sit there and laugh it off, but this was $1 billion that Canadian taxpayers are pretty darned concerned about. The minister has had the gall to stand in the House and say that everything is fine. How can she stand here and tell the House that the plan is working when people across the country know that it is a doomed failure?
Human Resources Development May 3rd, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I was around enough to know that Deloitte & Touche made a recommendation on February 2 and there were no substantive changes in the minister's six point plan.
The report was dated February 2. They said they had serious concerns about it. On February 8 she stood in the House after no substantive changes to the six point plan and said “I am going to save the day”.
That simply is not true and I would like to repeat my question to the minister. Why did she brag about this when the very company she hired showed that it had serious concerns?
Human Resources Development May 3rd, 2000
Mr. Speaker, when the $1 billion bungle was discovered over at HRD the minister crowed about how her little six point plan would save the day. It turns out that her plan went six points to no place according to her own independent appraisers.
Deloitte & Touche reviewed that plan and gave it a failing grade. Why did she pretend that this plan would work when she was told by the experts that it would fail?
Foreign Affairs April 13th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, let me say again that I am not trying to bad-mouth anyone. The Prime Minister seems to be doing that very well on his own. It is a travesty.
We have seen that there are concerns today in the international news that one of the countries that is supposed to be hosting the Prime Minister is very concerned and might put it on hold. They can laugh and yuk it up all they like over there, but things have gone from bad to worse and the government should know it.
When will the government cut the losses of the Prime Minister and bring him home before he does any more damage?
Foreign Affairs April 13th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, I am not sure how much it benefits to start calling other people names and defending—
Foreign Affairs April 13th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, the only thing I find more difficult than the Prime Minister saying the things he is saying over there is to have a Deputy Prime Minister defending him back home. It is unbelievable.
The Prime Minister is clearly out of his league. We know that he is endangering very fragile and tenuous diplomatic relationships. In four days we have seen four gaffes. He is igniting a controversy with practically every word that comes out of his mouth.
I ask again, is it not time that he just came home?
Foreign Affairs April 13th, 2000
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister is overseas and every single day he has been there he has embarrassed Canadians as well as himself. His comments have been unwise and indefensible. Everyone across the world knows that.
Our Prime Minister is unable to manage his government here at home. He is unable to manage his words. He has been stumbling from one mishap to another every single day that he has been gone.
For Canada's reputation, if not his own, will somebody please bring him home?