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CANADA - Carney Liberals shut down Parliamentary Committee debate on $6.6-billion IT Project The Canadian Press - May 01 2026 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/liberals-shut-down-committee-debate-on-66-billion-it-project/ OTTAWA — Opposition MPs say the Liberals used their new power as a majority government Thursday to shelve debate on calls for the government to provide documents about a $6.6-billion IT project that has gone far over budget. While the project to modernize the systems the government uses to deliver benefits to Canadians, such as old age security, launched in 2017 with a $1.7-billion budget, the cost is now more than three times that sum. Last week, the House of Commons human resources committee debated a Bloc Québécois motion to have the government produce documents about the project. When the committee convened Thursday, the Liberals instead pushed forward with clause by clause consideration of an unrelated bill, without providing any notice to the rest of the committee of that plan. Conservative MP Garnett Genuis said he was disappointed the Liberals used their new majority to end that debate and move on to another topic entirely. “Canadians will be worse off because they won’t have access to this information about this software,” he said, adding that the government seems to think it doesn’t have to collaborate with other parties. The Liberals officially became a majority government on Monday and have been criticized multiple times since for forcing debate at committees behind closed doors. On Tuesday, the health and ethics committees welcomed new Liberal MPs, giving the government a majority of members. Minutes into both meetings, the Liberal members used their majorities to send the debates into closed-door sessions. Conservative ethics critic Michael Barrett said that once the committee meetings were moved in camera, committee members were barred from speaking publicly about what happened behind closed doors. Tory health critic Dan Mazier said ....................................... https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/liberals-shut-down-committee-debate-on-66-billion-it-project/ #canada #MarkCarney #Carney #liberals #Ottawa