►The NDP's opposition day focuses on the auditor general's spring report, which found a $3.1-billion gap in funding allocated and what was actually spent on public security and anti-terrorism programs between 2011 and 2009.
Here is the motion, to be introduced by Treasury Board critic Mathieu Ravignat:
That, in light of $3.1 billion of missing funds outlined in Chapter Eight of the 2013 Spring Report of the Auditor General of Canada, an order of the House do issue for the following documents from 2001 to the present, allowing for redaction based on national security:
(a) all Public Security and Anti-Terrorism annual reports submitted to the Treasury Board Secretariat;
(b) all Treasury Board submissions made as part of the Initiative;
(c) all departmental evaluations of the Initiative;
(d) the Treasury Board corporate database established to monitor funding; that these records be provided to the House in both official languages by June 17, 2013; that the Speaker make arrangements for these records to be made available online; and that the Auditor-General be given all necessary resources to perform an in-depth forensic audit until the missing $3.1 billion is found and accounted for.
►Second-reading debate continues on Bill C-463, which would create tax deductions for non-business travel expenses across at least three different provincial boundaries.
-Andrew Thomson
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