Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank the minister, Ms. Mondou and Ms. Cadotte for being here.
My question is rather technical.
Minister, feel free to ask the deputy minister for help, because this concerns the Department of Canadian Heritage.
I was reading an article by Mylène Crête in La Presse on September 24. Here's an excerpt that caught my eye:
The Canadian Special Representative on Combatting Islamophobia, Amira Elghawaby, will have to provide about 3,000 pages of documents to La Presse. The Information Commissioner of this country recently issued an order to force the Department of Canadian Heritage, to which Ms. Elghawaby reports, to respond to an access to information request that it chose to ignore.
I understand that and it's incomprehensible. An order from the commissioner is more than an access to information request. Usually, an order is issued following a complaint—correct me if I'm wrong. To my understanding, there was a complaint because the documents were not provided. Was it Ms. Elghawaby's office or the Department of Canadian Heritage—or both—that failed to hand over the documents? Could you explain to me what happened? According to the article, there is a lack of transparency.
Can you walk me through the timeline?