Thanks, Chair.
I wanted to advise the committee that I am opposed to this motion. I will outline the reasons why.
First off, it's an interim position for six months. Ms. Richard has been in that office for more than 10 years. She served as number two to the previous...Mr. Dion, for much of his term, so she is the most obvious choice to replace him on an interim basis. She should already have an invitation to appear on the main estimates.
I don't understand why we would invite Minister LeBlanc for this particular question. He is not the minister responsible. He recused himself from the decision. He would have absolutely nothing to say as part of this discussion.
I think the final point is the timing. We already have a number of studies under way. We're involved in important studies on access to information. We have other studies that have been proposed that I think are very important—like the TikTok study. When this motion talks about immediacy, it gives me pause. It makes me wonder what we're putting aside for something that's really just a partisan dig and has no relevance to anything important that we're doing here.