Even if that suggestion goes through, some steps would have to be taken to ensure that public servants with that right would be protected and would not use it against their supervisors. We must provide some measures to make sure that exposure of abuse and waste
by public servants works satisfactorily, and would be useful to the government (1235) In conclusion, following what I said this morning about the lack of openness of this government in awarding contracts at the Department of Public Works, and there are many of them, the lack of will of this government to give teeth to Bill C-52, while it is such an important department, because of
...[+++] all the contracts that are awarded every year- 150,000, 175,000-because of the amounts involved and mostly because of the doubts that we have about waste within the government, in order to allow that department to become more open and more accountable toward elected representatives we would like to propose an amendmentIl y a sûrement des mesures à mettre en place pour faire en sorte que la dénonciation des abus et du gaspillage par les fonctionnaires puisse opérer de façon acceptable et profitable au gouvernement (1235)
Pour terminer, suite aux propos que j'ai tenus en cette Chambre ce matin concernant le manque de transparence de ce gouvernement dans l'attribution de contrats des Travaux publics, et ils sont nombreux, le manque de volonté de la part du gouvernement de mettre des dents dans le projet de loi C-52, alors que c'est un ministère tellement important au gouvernement, par tous les contrats qui sont accordés chaque année, 150 000, 175 000, pa
...[+++]r les sommes qui sont accordées par ces contrats, et surtout à cause des soupçons que nous avons concernant le gaspillage du gouver-
