I don't care if they're doing 20 reviews. A parliamentary committee representing Canadians in our responsibilities as an agriculture and agrifood committee has requested a department to come before this committee.
No excuses are acceptable. We've asked them to come, we have reasons to believe they should be here, and they should be here. I don't accept that response. If they want to come and sit in that chair and explain what they put in that letter, that's their right to do so, but that kind of response is unacceptable.
And I don't think, Pierre, that you should be defending them.