I would submit that that is the equivalent of being turned down, if you haven't received any response.
On a different note, the public accounts committee has been seized with the Liberals' green slush fund scandal. One of the issues that we have been probing was the appointment of conflict-ridden chair Annette Verschuren. There is evidence that Navdeep Bains rigged the process to appoint a Liberal insider, Ms. Verschuren, as chair of SDTC, better known as the green slush fund. The committee ordered that the PCO turn over all emails and all documents between the PCO, the industry minister's office—then minister Bains—the PMO, as well as the Department of Industry. Incredibly, not a single email could be found. We're talking about the appointment of the chair, someone who is responsible for overseeing one billion taxpayer dollars. One of the issues identified by PCO in explaining why they couldn't find any emails was that many of the records were transitory in nature and therefore had been destroyed.
Do you have any thoughts on the existing policy around transitory records and whether that policy needs to be re-examined?