Thanks, Mr. Chair.
The question from Ms. Khalid earlier about correspondence with the Ethics Commissioner is important. We're looking for confirmation that what the Prime Minister's Office ultimately said to Canadians on the third attempt was the truth and, if that's the truth, that it's the same truth—if there can be more than one version of it—that was given to the Ethics Commissioner's office. Those are confidences that belong to the Prime Minister and only he can disclose what was said between the Ethics Commissioner's office and his office.
With that in mind and knowing that the Ethics Commissioner can't speak to things that are protected by those confidences, I move that:
The Committee order all correspondence including emails, text messages, messages sent on any electronic messaging applications, phone call logs, handwritten notes, memorandums, briefing materials and any documents produced regarding the Prime Minister’s travel to Prospect Estate in Jamaica in 2023/24 and 2022/23, and that the Prime Minister’s Office and Ethics Commissioner’s office provide the Clerk of the Committee with these documents within seven days of this motion being adopted.
Mr. Chair, I've given that in both official languages to the clerk.
I think only with that information can we have a fulsome conversation with the Ethics Commissioner. The agreed-upon timeline to have that hearing, once the House resumes, would allow for this information to be received by the clerk prior to that. Because there's been a change in the story three times, we should find out whether there's been a deception made to the Ethics Commissioner.