‘Complete waste of tax dollars’; Kamloops MP Caputo left confused as Liberals shut down committee
KAMLOOPS — On Monday (Oct. 24), a federal government ethics committee hearing was cut short in what the official opposition is calling a coverup, relating back to the 2019 SNC-Lavalin scandal. The Liberals, in shutting it down, stated that there wasn’t enough notice given to hold the meeting.
The move to halt the meeting just before the RCMP were about to testify on the information they had regarding the 2019 scandal has left the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo and the Tory caucus scratching their heads as they claim more then enough notice was given to the government.
“A complete waste of tax dollars and complete disrespect to the (RCMP) Commissioner. He and his Staff Sgt. were present. Why couldn’t we just hear from them and have their evidence for an hour? They had come all this way. I’m scratching my head about why this happened,” Caputo told CFJC News.