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NDP MP Peter Julian rises to debate the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Tuesday April 3, 2012. (Adrian Wyld/THE CANADIAN PRESS)

NDP wants to replace expenditure committee with independent body

GLORIA GALLOWAY OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail

PublishedTuesday, Jun. 18 2013, 2:56 PM EDT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ~ June 18, 2013

Official opposition tables motion to increase transparency and replace the BOIE with independent body

OTTAWA – NDP Caucus Chair Peter Julian (Burnaby – New Westminster) has tabled a motion to bring full transparency and accountability to the House of Commons.

Member's Statement ~ Context : Member's Statement

    Mr. Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, NDP): Mr. Speaker, in the words of the newly independent member for Edmonton—St. Albert, the Conservative Party of Canada has "morphed into what we once mocked" .

41st Parliament, 1st Session ~ Context : Question

    Mr. Peter Julian (Burnaby—New Westminster, NDP): Mr. Speaker, for three years the Conservatives have known about inadequate equipment for oil spills and have done nothing.

    Our Coast Guard does not have the capacity to cleanup even a single supertanker spill. Yet, Conservatives want British Columbians to accept a massive increase in tanker traffic. “Just trust us”, clearly is not good enough.

Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun, Page A4.

Like an engaged couple destined for an unhappy marriage, North Vancouver and North Burnaby have little in common and shouldn't be brought together into a single federal electoral district, a parliamentary committee advised in a report tabled Monday.