I was very concerned about the fact that this exact process happened at the health committee. We made the exact same type of request. We wanted to get documents that were unredacted and that would then move to the law clerk for redaction. When we received those, what we actually got were documents that had been redacted by staff and had so much missing. How do we, as parliamentarians, do our jobs if...?
The interesting part about that was that the original argument against getting any of the documents was that, in a pandemic, the staff were incredibly busy—too busy too collect up documents for the committee. When we saw that the staff had been tasked with not just collecting the documents but redacting them, we were very shocked. To see the way that these documents were redacted for this committee was absolutely shocking. I mean, it's almost like they did it in health and they doubled down in finance.
Last week when I was speaking and I was interrupted, I was shocked again by the process. I've been elected to come to this place and to serve the citizens of my riding. It's shocking to see how we are cut off. The information is not given. We're basically told that, sorry, we have to stop; we're done here.
At this point in time, I'm going to yield the floor for the time being because I'm trying to wrap my mind around how it is that we find ourselves in a place like this. Our inability to actually be able to see any of the information is very shocking.
I yield the floor to my colleague, Mr. Poilievre.