Jasraj Hallan
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Business & Financial Interests
Before being elected to Parliament, Jasraj Hallan was a small business owner in Calgary, Alberta. He reportedly worked as a master builder and operated a custom home building business. According to his disclosure summary with the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, he has declared ownership in a private corporation named J. Hallan Inc.
Key Relationships & Connections
As a member of the Conservative Party, Jasraj Hallan is a key political ally of party leader Pierre Poilievre. Poilievre has appointed Hallan to prominent roles in the Conservative shadow cabinet, including serving as the Shadow Minister for Finance. This position makes him a leading voice for the party on economic and financial matters.
Public Controversies
In late 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hallan reportedly travelled to California despite public health advisories against non-essential travel. He stated the trip was to visit a sick family member. He has also faced public criticism for his statements linking the federal carbon tax to increased food bank usage. Some food bank organizations have publicly stated that while the cost of living is a factor, the reasons for rising food bank use are complex and cannot be attributed to a single policy.
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finance minister Mr. Speaker, everyone remembers when theput on a grand show three years ago. He said that he would haul in all the grocery store CEOs, give them a piece of his mind and stabilize grocery prices by Thanksgiving. He just forgot to mention which Thanksgiving. Four Thanksgivings later, the cost of turkey is up 10%, with record food bank usage. He proved that Liberals are all talk
Mr. Speaker, not a single one of the things that he listed is going to take a single person out of the food bank lineups that are at record usage. Food bank lineups are getting longer. In fact, since 2019, under these guys, food bank lineups have doubled. Now we find out that one in three food banks is actually turning people away because they do not have food or resources to keep up with the
Mr. Speaker, any Canadian calling in to the CRA can feel the Liberal failures. Last year, the Liberals came up with a phony 100-day plan to fix the CRA issues that they created, and as usual, it was all talk and no results. Since then, the taxpayers' ombudsman has had to launch two new investigations into the failures of the Liberal government at the CRA with delays and processing times. The
Mr. Speaker, like a typical Liberal, he thinks answered calls being accurate only 17% of the time is a huge success. This is the guy who said the buck stops with him when it comes to CRA problems. Now the taxpayers' ombudsman has a 27% increase in complaints about the incompetent Liberal government. Liberals will fleece Canadians for every single dollar, but Liberal-connected insiders who are
Can you also give us the number of rejected applicants?
The reason I'm asking is that the Auditor General stated in her report that it was a problem when it came to hiring. Do you recognize what she has said and that it is a problem?
That's fair.
Okay. The government gave that number.
minister Given this Auditor General's report saying that we're at less than half what we need and what the government has promised, will you tell thethat we don't have enough?
minister Did you ever tell thethat the number of officers they've promised is not enough?
Are you able to table since last year and up until now how many have been recruited? Just give us a breakdown, month by month, of how many new recruits have been hired.
If you could, table that to the committee. I have only a limited amount of time—
Okay. Thank you. Commissioner, you said to this committee in your opening statement about diversity that it's a priority for you guys for staffing. In the Auditor General's report, nine out of 11 divisions are below critical staffing. Was diversity a higher or lower priority when you were trying to fill vacancies?
Is it higher up on the priority for you when you're hiring or is it lower?
You claimed at this committee that you'll have 750 officers hired in the next three years. Do you think that's enough?
Is it enough?