Mr. Speaker, in that case and with your wisdom from the Chair I will withdraw the word deliberate.
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Government Contracts May 23rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, in that case and with your wisdom from the Chair I will withdraw the word deliberate.
Government Contracts May 23rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, in all good conscience and with all the respect that I have for the House, I cannot withdraw that statement.
Government Contracts May 23rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, the minister stood and said that he had paid. I will not withdraw them.
Government Contracts May 23rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, surely the member knows that it is not paid for until the cheque is cashed. Surely the daughter-in-law of the minister of public works informed him that the cheque had never been cashed. Therefore their stay at the luxury cottage was in fact a freebie. It was gratis, meaning that the minister clearly violated the conflict rules.
Obviously the minister of public works deliberately misled the House and I therefore ask--
Government Contracts May 23rd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, clearly the cheque that was written and signed by the daughter-in-law of the minister of public works was not cashed until yesterday which means that no dollars left the account until yesterday. Therefore the minister's assertion that he had paid for his stay at this luxury cottage was inaccurate.
Why did the minister attempt to mislead the House?
Government Contracts May 22nd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, I can appreciate that the solicitor general cannot comment on the investigation of the RCMP, especially since a cloud still hangs over its head as a result of the political interference with APEC and Airbus.
Will the solicitor general table in the House the report of the RCMP on the same day that he receives the report?
Government Contracts May 22nd, 2002
Mr. Speaker, the RCMP has begun an initial probe of the government's handling of public works contracts worth a total of $1.6 million, for which the auditor general fingered senior public servants for breaking “just about every rule in the book”.
RCMP Sergeant Paul Marsh says that the RCMP will conduct its preliminary work as expeditiously as possible. Does the solicitor general have a time line from the RCMP as to when it will finish its preliminary investigation?
Justice May 21st, 2002
Mr. Speaker, on March 12 the solicitor general, responding to a question of mine, stated that first degree murderers served an average of 28.4 years before being released back into the community. However a document recently released by the commissioner of Correctional Service of Canada contradicts the solicitor general. It states:
Offenders convicted of first degree murder are serving an average of 17.6 years prior to their first release.
My question is obvious. Will the solicitor general stand and admit that his numbers are wrong and that his numbers are self-serving?
Government Contracts May 9th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, the public works minister lamely says that the problem has been fixed and he accepts the auditor general's report, but the Deputy Prime Minister spins that this is nothing more than an administrative error. Now the lapdog backbenchers come out and say that no, it is the auditor general and her process that is at fault.
When will members of the government stop playing the blame game and realize that they are the ones who are at fault?
Government Contracts May 9th, 2002
Mr. Speaker, under the Liberal government's culture of corruption its first response is to play the blame game: let us blame the media; let us blame the opposition; let us blame old ministers; and now let us blame the auditor general.
Why will the Liberal government not own up to the fact that the culture of corruption is one that it has created and recognize that the Liberals are the ones to blame?