‘The system is broken’: $30.7-billion in spending estimates not reviewed by House committees

The House Committee on Industry and Technology didn't review $12.5-billion in spending estimates and hasn't performed a review of main estimates since the last Parliament.

Liberal MPs Randeep Sarai, left, Salma Zahid, Ron McKinnon, René Arseneault, and Joël Lightbound chair six House committees that didn't review spending estimates for the current fiscal year.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

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BY NEIL MOSS

June 14, 2023

Five House committees, and a joint House and Senate committee, did not perform reviews of $30.7-billion in recent spending estimates, continuing a trend of MPs eschewing their financial oversight powers, including four committees that haven’t performed a spending estimates...

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