Thank you.
Mr. Barrett, my colleague, stole a bit of my thunder. I was going to bring to the attention of this entire group that simply getting all communications, potentially, between the minister and Mr. Anderson only scratches the surface. As Mr. Barrett indicated, there are so many applications out there. I know personally the frustration I have with my teenage daughters, who use Snapchat for the sole purpose that it does not allow anyone to retain the actual message. It's a moment in time. It literally disappears within, I think, 10 or 15 seconds. I believe it would be foolhardy for anyone on this committee to believe the minister, as experienced as he is, would be that naive to actually use his own cellphone or, to Ms. Damoff's point, his government cellphone and implicate himself in a serious violation under the Conflict of Interest Act: benefiting himself while being a minister of the Crown. It would be foolish, and I don't think, for one minute, he did that.
However, it's a step, and it was a step I that thought was necessary because—and I wholeheartedly agree with my colleague Mr. Kurek—the display we all witnessed from Mr. Boissonnault was one for the ages. I have been privileged to attend numerous committees since my election in 2021, but nowhere had I ever seen the complete lack of respect for the process and the hyperpartisanship of the minister. Literally, right out of the gate he had an agenda and wanted to distract this committee. We're not going to allow that to happen.
Sometimes I think that my Liberal colleagues simply don't want an opposition. They want an audience.