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Some of their questioning even implied that the Higgs government gave misleading information to the auditor general about the decision-making process during the early months of the pandemic response.Īt the public accounts committee, PC MLA Andrea Anderson-Mason, who was attorney general when the pandemic began, questioned why the government's organizational chart didn't show any role for the 'COVID Core' group. … I have to say it was certainly interesting for us as an opposition to watch.' Discussions confidentialĬabinet discussions are confidential by law, so the ex-ministers can't reveal what happened there. 'It certainly allows a more in-depth probing. 'I could tell by the way they were asking their questions that they might know more, they might have a bit more inside information, than we would have,' said Liberal MLA Benoit Bourque. The Liberal chair, Chuck Chiasson, and the PC vice-chair, Wetmore, have been trying to make proceedings less partisan and more focused on genuine accountability and oversight.īut the addition of three members who were privy to behind-the-scenes cabinet deliberations just a few months ago has added a new level of scrutiny. The public accounts committee was shifting to a less political approach even before the addition of the ex-ministers. Green Party Leader David Coon says the ex-ministers have a depth of experience from being in cabinet to bring to the committee. 'That obviously made for more robust and thoughtful questions that, without that experience, you wouldn't have.' 'Each of them brought a particular context to their questioning because of their background in cabinet,' he said. Green Leader David Coon said the quality of questioning was obvious. 'This is a program that needs to be reviewed very periodically and there needs to be an accountability to the dollars that are invested and to the outcomes that we are hoping to gain from a program such as this.' 'I think that accountability is really important, especially with the dollar figure that's now attached to this program,' she told senior officials. Shepherd, a former minister of health from October 2020 to July 2022, urged her former department to do more to track the cost and outcomes of the provincial methadone program. They're like a team of accountability all-stars, combining deep knowledge of the government's inner workings with an independent streak befitting the public accounts role.

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