No trade agreement—and not much else either
The NDP has turned up more documents concerning Tony Clement and the G8 Legacy Fund. Specifically, they seem interested in the following passage from an October 2011 memo prepared for the deputy minister of industry, based on a conversation with a former employee of FedNor.
Irrelevance and sloppiness are his best explanations for the contested G8 spending
After QP this afternoon, Tony Clement stood with the following point of privilege.
The NDP says Tony Clement misled the public accounts committee when he testified three weeks ago. The emails in questions can be viewed here.
The government knows which gazebos, toilets and bike racks were built with that $45.8 million
Pierre Poilievre, parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Transport, responding this afternoon to the NDP’s Alexander Boulerice, who asked if the government would allow a parliamentary inquiry into the G8 Legacy Fund to proceed.
Peter Kent reiterates to the Star that his conversation with Vern Freedlander wasn’t as Mr. Freedlander reported it. Whatever the case, Mr. Freedlander wasn’t registered as a lobbyist.
Each and every day, someone asks Tony Clement a question he has no intention of answering
Tony Clement repudiates his friend’s understanding of how government works.
The NDP persisted again yesterday in asking questions about the G8 Legacy Fund. With Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird away from the House, the government side, again, sent up Deepak Obhrai to respond.
The Star obtains new emails related to the goings on in Huntsville.