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Peter DeFazio: “The inspector general in Canada, auditor general, and this is Canada, little, dinky Canada, they paid $1.5 billion, and…”

On the recordMay 16, 2017
The inspector general in Canada, auditor general, and this is Canada, little, dinky Canada, they paid $1.5 billion, and we are proposing that nothing would be paid here and there is no value, and they said it was undervalued at $2.6 billion.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

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DeFazio compares U.S. asset valuation unfavorably to Canada's higher valuation.

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