REPLAY | Education department defends spending
CBC News
Posted: Feb 9, 2012 9:04 AM AT
Last Updated: Feb 9, 2012 4:16 PM AT
The Department of Education is the latest government department to have its 2010-11 spending examined by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.
Wendy McLeod-MacKnight, the deputy minister of the anglophone sector, and Roger Doucet, the deputy minister of the francophone sector, were fielding questions from the committee.
The committee ended at 2 p.m. on Thursday.
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