Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I was anticipating that this meeting could be relatively short and I'm a bit bewildered as to why the government is so inclined to talk about this at such length, but I suppose it does make sense, because it's the typical effort to distract, to look the other way, to say, “Look, there's something shiny over there.” This is what they do.
It's a continuation, I would say, of a lack of respect from the government for this committee. We've seen this with the as yet fully unredacted documents for the net-zero accelerator fund and with the appearance someday soon, hopefully, of the minister for Jasper recovery, Mr. Randy Boissonnault. One of the Randys will show up here, hopefully, but of course, engrossed in yet another scandal, perhaps he could be dropped before we get that opportunity. We don't seem to want to have—