Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'm going to move a motion, and then I'm going to discuss it. It reads as follows:
That, in light of the February 28, 2024, tabling of the Winnipeg lab documents which contained the government's own findings concluding that the People's Republic of China and its entities infiltrated Canada's top microbiology lab, a national security breach representing a very serious and credible threat to Canada, and given that access to this information had been denied to Parliament and all Canadians by the government for several years, the committee undertake a study, pursuant to Standing Orders 108(3)(h)(vi) and (vii), of the collection and transmission of information and intelligence within the Government of Canada and the government's reliance on its over-classification to deny access to it by Parliament and Canadians, provided that the committee report its findings to the House and call the following witnesses to appear:
(a) the Departmental Security Officer, Executive Director of Security, Public Health Agency of Canada;
(b) the Deputy Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Lucas;
(c) the Vice President, Infectious Diseases Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr. Donald Sheppard;
(d) the Vice President, National Microbiology Laboratory Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr. Guillaume Poliquin;
(e) the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada, Heather Jeffrey;
(f) the Minister of Health, the Honourable Mark Holland;
(g) the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, David Vigneault;
(h) the Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister, Nathalie G. Drouin; and
(i) the Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc.
Mr. Chair, I'd like to give a brief couple of minutes of remarks on this motion so that all members—