Hedy Fry: Infrastructure, Question Period, October 23, 2009

Dr Hedy Fry
Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre

Question Period
October 23, 2009 Mr. Speaker, every day there is more evidence of the Conservative government's abuse of power. Two-thirds of recreational infrastructure went to Conservative ridings, the use of taxpayers' dollars for political gain. On the cheques for those announcements is the government party's logo. That is use of public funds for party advertising. Now Western Economic Diversification uses political branding in its funding announcements, breaching rules of bureaucratic neutrality. Does the minister not know it is an abuse of power to make the department do political advertising?
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... Mr. Speaker, that government came into power promising transparency, accountability and impeccable ethical standards and yet they break the rules, use their power to bully bureaucrats, spend public funds for Conservative Party advertising and then refuse to answer to this House for that breach of public trust. Will the Prime Minister now turn over to the Parliamentary Budget Officer all government files on every type of government advertising since the budget last January?

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