We'll move to the item referred to in the motion by Mr. Siksay.
Mr. Kratchanov, you are excused, sir. Thank you very kindly. Please extend that to the minister.
I wanted to advise the committee that the reason I was a little tardy getting here—I'm usually here about 10 or 15 minutes before—is that I did run into Mr. Soudas outside the chamber this morning on the way here, and we had a little conversation. I offered him the summons, and he thought I shouldn't be giving that to him, so... It was only a photocopy, though.
In any event, he is well aware and following this. I think I had indicated that his position was that the matter was a matter for disposition by the House. That's a point for debate, I'm sure, either here and/or in the House.
The matter that Mr. Siksay has suggested that we move to has to do with order number 3, the second item. We're skipping over the instructions to the chair concerning information requests. It is the whole question of the discussion of the non-appearance of Mr. Togneri, Ms. Andrews, and Mr. Soudas.
I think when we had Mr. Walsh here we did receive a fair bit of information that is consequential or may have some impact on our decision as to how we proceed now that we have passed the date of Madame Freeman's motion and Mr. Soudas did not appear by the sixteenth. So I think we have all the information that we're going to get, other than the responses to the requests for information from Public Works that were under the Valeriote motion.
I understand that those are still not translated from Public Works.