Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
First of all, I'd like to thank my colleague for providing clarifications regarding PavCo. I now have a better understanding of the situation, particularly why we were talking about fundraising and food banks.
I think that kind of thing still happens quite frequently. As I was saying earlier, if there are problems with PavCo, it's up to the government of British Columbia to deal with them.
I don't know if it's the practice of committees to call provincial public companies, but I think that would be quite bizarre. I don't think there's any precedent.
Let's imagine that Loto-Québec gives tickets to a show. I don't know which artist is popular right now. Mr. Villemure could certainly give us a name or two. I'm more from the time of René Simard, but let's take the example of Céline Dion, who is back and whose performance in Paris I greatly appreciated.
If this crown corporation was giving tickets to a Céline Dion concert, and if federal ministers were among the people who received them, I don't think the Government of Quebec would want a federal parliamentary committee to start asking questions about its procedures. This question almost discredits the proposal, in my opinion.
I also think that talking about the price of a ticket that a minister, a member of Parliament or a federal public servant agrees to pay leads nowhere, and only satisfies people's curiosity about the tastes of certain parliamentarians. I don't think that would help us do our job and protect our parliamentary institutions.
Either it applies to all possible concerts, which opens up a whole universe to explore, or we'll just leave it at that, because as my colleague also explained, that's the commissioner's role.
If a ticket exchange for any concert were to result in some kind of contract, that would be called influence. That's not at all what we're talking about, and the commissioner has all the powers needed to do that work.
Mr. Chairman, since I'm still thinking about all this, I'll give the floor to my honourable colleague Mr. Villemure, but I would ask you to put me back on the speaking list.