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Committee adjourns on party-line vote before deciding on recovering $34 million agency payments
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Jean Yip
Kristina Tesser Derksen
Luc Berthold
Michael Cooper
Ted Falk
Tom Osborne
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Committee adjourns on party-line vote before deciding on recovering $34 million agency payments ANALYSIS 11 OCTOBER 2026 Conservative MPs pressed to recoup funds paid to five ineligible projects while Liberals said an independent board and legal counsel advised against it.
The dispute turns on a government reply to a written question that, according to Cooper, acknowledged $34 million went to ineligible recipients and said recovering it was not in the public interest.
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Committee adjourns on party-line vote before deciding on recovering $34 million agency payments
ANALYSIS
11 OCTOBER 2026
Conservative MPs pressed to recoup funds paid to five ineligible projects while Liberals said an independent board and legal counsel advised against it.
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A Conservative motion calling on the government to recover $34 million paid to five ineligible projects at Sustainable Development Technology Canada did not come to a vote on Thursday after the public accounts committee adjourned on a recorded vote.…
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