Could the minister tell us where his priorities lie: searching for fishermen in distress or for employees who have gone AWOL? |
How can the department explain his department spending $42 million on travel and hospitality while Coast Guard boats were tied up to wharves around this country because they could not afford fuel? |
How can the minister explain $42 million on travel and hospitality, while Coast Guard vessels were tied up at wharves across this country because they couldn't afford fuel? |
It's not fair to the people, ... The prime minister and cabinet are the ones that make all the decisions of government and if we don't have a voice there that means our part of the country is not represented. |
These sometimes are the kind of things that cost lives … In this case, when we look at the number of abuses of the regulations, plus the fact that people were misdirected … people just weren't in tune with proper procedures. |
This is pretty serious stuff … This is the kind of stuff that leads to major accidents, |
We can send that size of a delegation to Estonia and the question is, for what? Why do we need 40-odd people there? |