Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Just to respond to that, what I said was that Mr. Easter can contact the minister about his questions directed towards the minister. Question two: when did the minister first contact the CWB? That's a question for the minister to answer. Also, did the minister call upon the Auditor General? That's a question for the minister.
Mr. Easter is ingenuously mixing two issues: access to the department and access to the minister. His questions are aimed at the minister. It's appropriate that he would write a letter to the minister asking the minister to reply to questions directed towards the minister. I don't know where the department comes into this at all.
I go back to my original concern. If we all had questions we wanted to ask the minister and we tabled them here as motions, we'd never move on with important committee business like we're doing right now. I feel that we're wasting the committee's time, Chair.