| Somers makes no secret of his dislike for bureaucracy and his contempt for people who pass the buck. |
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| It seems to me that it is far easier to pass the buck than to take personal responsibility for our own actions. |
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| The government can pass the buck to companies, and workers can abdicate all responsibility. |
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| When you were answering the questions, you did not pass the buck, and you called a spade a spade. |
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| So again, on this issue, as in housing, we feel Canada cannot pass the buck to Quebec. |
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| Second, cable giants should not be allowed to pass the buck on to the public. |
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| The people of British Columbia are tired of hearing the government trying to pass the buck. |
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| The government tries to pass the buck and the Conservatives are conspicuously silent only when the law is being flouted by one of their own. |
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| We cannot simply pass the buck to Slovakia, Romania or the other countries. |
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| What has become of us that our politicians can do nothing but pass the buck without taking responsibility for their actions? |
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| We cannot shirk our responsibility and pass the buck to non-elected scientists to make these tough decisions for us. |
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| I guess he will have to wait until next year, and then they will pass the buck. |
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| The government went back to this after trying to pass the buck to the provinces. |
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| Commissioner, you should not pass the buck to Member States so that they help whoever they can. |
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| For us it is crucial that the Commission does not pass the buck to Eurostat in such cases but that it takes responsibility itself. |
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| They pass the buck, they tell you to call this person, and you are lucky if you can even get an answering machine. |
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| Attempts are now being made to pass the buck to Parliament, by telling us that although no one is going to ask us what we want, we have no power to stop anything from happening. |
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| Mr. Speaker, the Conservative government is to blame for the chaos surrounding the H1N1 vaccination campaign, but it is desperately trying to pass the buck. |
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| In its draft, the Commission wanted to pass the buck to the governments, and it is fortunate that these, in the common position, declined to do so. |
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| It is really very petty to not care any more than that about their well-being, to pass the buck back and forth as though it were a political game instead of a social issue. |
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| Congress is attempting to pass the buck on federal funding for education. |
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| Nonetheless, the situation of passengers on international journeys is often less secure, and railway undertakings sometimes pass the buck to one another as regards liability. |
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| Secondly, this report could be used by some individuals in this Chamber, and also outside it, to pass the buck to the Commission, so that they get all the blame for the crisis in Europe. |
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| The problem comes when the judiciary, as is human nature, really wishes to pass the buck, and begins to bestow on the psychologist and the mental health community more and more power. |
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| Politicians love to pass the buck downward. |
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| I'm not trying to pass the buck, but I'm suggesting that's the first and most important thing to do, whether it's for CIDA or the Department of National Defence, which I'm more familiar with. |
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| We had to wait for the Auditor General's report before the federal Liberal government was no longer able to pass the buck and was forced to accept its responsibilities. |
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