Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will defer to Mr. Mazier and your conversation. I think it is reasonable to take the time necessary for official bilingualism to be respected and to have the documents properly translated. I think that's a reasonable perspective.
In terms of your question about what we might do at Tuesday's meeting, I certainly don't think that we should just take the day off, because we're heading a bit closer to summer.
I think it's worth reminding this committee that Simon Kennedy, the deputy minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, from whom we have now been in receipt of two letters.... The original letter was a blatant disregard of the original motion seeking the production of documents relating to the net-zero accelerator initiative.
When a committee orders the production of documents, deputy ministers don't get to pick and choose what documents they are allowed to send over to that committee. There are numerous Speakers' rulings related to the production of those documents. I mentioned them before in a previous conversation when we had the government overrule our ability to access documents.
In summary, whether it be Speaker Rota, Speaker Milliken or House of Commons Procedure and Practice, on numerous occasions it has been highlighted that it is not only our duty and our obligation to ask for documents as a committee, but it is a right that we inherently hold as parliamentarians.
Now, the deputy minister has his own obligations. He's the deputy minister of a department, and his job is to defend the minister—and the government, more broadly speaking—but he can't just deny what a committee asks for or demands in terms of production, no matter what his arguments are. There was a recent example of the arguments he laid out, particularly in the second letter, as to why he is unwilling to provide the documents this committee has requested. The easiest comparable example is that, recently, Iain Stewart, the president of the Public Health Agency, was called to the bar in the House of Commons for failing to provide the Winnipeg lab documents. Now, Iain Stewart made the exact same arguments that the current deputy minister of Innovation—