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We begin with ethics commissioner Mario Dion, who has found that former Finance minister Bill Morneau broke ethics law by failing to recuse himself from discussions about awarding WE Charity the Canada Student Service Grant (CSSG), but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not. The commissioner’s findings were published today, the result of an investigation requested by four MPs on July 10, after the Trudeau government outsourced the $500-million CSSG a program to pay students for volunteering to WE Charity, an organization with which the Trudeau and Morneau famili
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Premier Andrew Furey issued his full thoughts on the Moya Greene report for the first time on Thursday. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador)
Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey says the province s financial circumstances are unsustainable and the total provincial debt of $47 billion is an unbearable load for residents.
In a video released Thursday evening, Furey offered his full thoughts for the first time about the recently released, and blunt, Moya Greene report, which outlines the province s dire fiscal situation. Our province is spending more than we have. We are borrowing just to pay interest on what we owe. Over a billion dollars a year with nothing to show for it. Our credit card debt is out of control, Furey said.
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Task Force Releases Report on N.L.’s Economic Situation – May 6, 2021
Moya Greene, chair of Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey’s economic recovery team, holds a virtual news conference to discuss the findings of the task force’s report. The premier commissioned the team to look at the financial situation of the province, including the way it delivers its services and how it could generate more revenue. (no interpretation)
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