Mr. Chair, I am opposed to this. I think instead we should ask the Department of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages to give us the funds.
The bills should be paid by Canadian Heritage since, without consulting us or even seeing whether we wanted to do their work, its officials decided, unbeknownst to us and without discussing the matter, that we would do their work to evaluate the roadmap. This is utterly unacceptable, and it lacks professionalism and transparency.
I don't see why they wouldn't pay this amount. Mr. Chair, I move that we ask Canadian Heritage to pay us this amount.