...and this decision has to be revisited and reversed, and I demand that this government does a better job.

Mr. Speaker, what kind of operation is the Minister running at DPW? Is the Minister telling us that the rules and regulations allow that the officials from his department can call up anybody and negotiate a sole-source contract for a 15-year lease with whatever business they want? I would like to know how I'd get into that kind of business, Mr. Speaker. How does a person at DPW decide which business he's going to give this 15-year contract to? If the criteria was only that it had to be a storefront or have easy disability access, I could give him at least five locations that I would have expected these officials to consider. I am most appalled at the Minister's suggestion that for government contracts they don't look at, when they're looking for space, what their use might be. Is the Minister saying that there's no difference between whether the government runs a motor vehicle office or a Legal Aid office? There are a lot of confidential issues involved in something like Legal Aid or other programs that the government offers. Should there not be due consideration -- the Minister being the Minister of Finance, as well -- that every dollar that we allocate for Legal Aid funding goes to legal services and not to the best, most lucrative, expensive, luxurious pad that you could find for a legal office?

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I object to this and I expect...

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