Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for their attendance.
I have a brief observation and one question, and then I'm going to cede my time to Senator Carignan.
My observation is to refresh my colleague Yasir Naqvi's commentary with regard to how he's proud of a government that believes in bilingualism. Well, I think, quite frankly, that all 338 parliamentarians believe in that. However, I'll refresh his memory. Thanks to Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir George-Étienne Cartier, the British North America Act allowed bilingualism in Parliament. The translation bureau was the creation of R.B. Bennett's government, and simultaneous interpretation was introduced in Parliament by John Diefenbaker's government. The right to simultaneous interpretation in Parliament was enshrined in the Official Languages Act by Brian Mulroney's government. I'm very thankful for previous Conservative governments that really enshrined bilingualism in this country. That's my observation.
My question is for the PCO.
Thirty-one thousand documents from Justin Trudeau's government were before the Rouleau commission. How many of that 31,000 never saw the light of day?