Thank you, Mr. Chair. I am just having a little bit of trouble understanding how it is that, between FMBS and HR last summer, they somehow miraculously found $500,000 to sole source a contract to an American company to come in and do work there. You are telling me today that this falls off the government's radar because it doesn't have the resources to get the work done. Mr. Chair, something doesn't add up there. I mentioned earlier the fact that, last year, we have added the macroeconomic policy shop in the Department of Finance at a cost of $1 million. I still don't understand why that was allowed to happen because, again, until we get a deal with Ottawa, we are on a fixed income. Nobody can convince me otherwise that we need a macroeconomic policy shop until we are in a position where we are the determiners of our own fate and our own destiny, and we are not. Make no mistake about that. We have limited ability everywhere you look. So, Mr. Chair, I just wanted to make those points. I don't buy the argument that we didn't have the resources. If we had the resources to do the Hackett report and go and find money there, that argument doesn't wash with me, Mr. Chair. Thank you.
David Ramsay on Committee Motion 48-15(5) Establishment Of A Boards And Agencies Review Unit, Carried
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Committee Motion 48-15(5) Establishment Of A Boards And Agencies Review Unit, Carried
Item 16: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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