Greg McLean

Mr. Speaker, my colleague has been intimately involved in labour negotiations before, but also negotiations in general. One of the things about negotiations is that we always have to understand what the other party wants. In the policy put forward by my colleague, the shadow critic for labour, is the whole concept of the other party benefiting as well as Canada benefiting. That is perhaps what [more]

Mr. Speaker, I will stand up to ask a question and let my colleague across the way take a breath. On the path toward his fantasy of electrification, if he looks at any electrification vehicle policy in Canada, they have failed everywhere, costing billions, tens of billions and fifties of billions of dollars. How many billions are we going to spend on this experiment before we realize we are [more]

Mr. Speaker, I have asked the government more than once to provide some clarity on its complicity in the pump-and-dump scandal, Lion Electric vehicles. I will give a quick recap. Lion Electric built school buses in Quebec, and the government of Quebec invested $230 million in an electric bus maker as part of its green transition efforts. It stipulated that all electric school buses purchased in [more]

Mr. Speaker, I will first say that counting on a new task force for the RCMP to investigate crimes in the past is shutting the gate after the horses have left. I also do not expect the government to be actively investigating people who are clear insiders and well-connected with the Liberal government that sits today. This is something that we need to get to the bottom of very quickly. The sole [more]

Mr. Cory, welcome. Thank you for being here. I take note of your comments that you've invested about $18 billion—according to your website, $17.9 billion—and you have terms out for potentially another $10 billion. Out of a $35-billion allocation, you've allocated $18 billion and you might allocate $10 billion more, yet the government has given you $10 billion more in this allocation for your [more]

No, the question is, effectively, has this been a success, as far as what you've shown in zero...electric buses goes?

A bankrupt company, you haven't written off your investment in them.

Thank you very much. I'll go back to Mr. Cory. You talked about the $50 million you loaned, as you would say, to Highland Electric Fleets in Beverly, Massachusetts. You also loaned $400 million to Quebec's Bus Carriers Federation and $15 million to Autobus Séguin. More than $1 billion has gone out for these zero-emission buses, and I suppose some of those may include Lion Electric buses as [more]

Okay. I would like to go now to the president of the Canada Infrastructure Bank. Lion Electric went bankrupt, so any taxpayer money that funded the acquisition of these vehicles is effectively null at this point in time. I'll pivot here, if you don't mind, Mr. Cory. There was an arrangement made behind the scenes with Lion Electric regarding vehicles, which included a bank syndication with the [more]

Is it a writeoff?

I apologize for interrupting, but I'm not asking about support. I'm asking what took the government so long, between 2016 and 2018, to get to any kind of open banking framework when every other country in the world was moving much more quickly.