I appreciate both comments. I also appreciate the chance to get a sip of my hot water and lemon. The points of order give me a break, and I appreciate that, but I wasn't doing it to have a break.
What I'm really showing, getting back to the documents that we're talking about, is that as elected officials, we have a role to play. Sometimes that role needs to be protected by confidence. As the professional, non-partisan public service, they have their role to play in providing us documents that will also protect Canadians and protect the confidences they have within their office. People share information that isn't always something that should be put out in the public domain—mobile cellphone numbers, as an example.
In terms of the sworn duty to protect our national security and the privacy of cabinet confidences, the point I was making when I was interrupted by the points of order, was that we all have things we have to shoulder as our own responsibilities as leaders. They provided the documents to the committee, but the documents aren't being reviewed and the witnesses aren't coming forward to say why they're redacted. I have an issue with that. That's what my presentation tonight is about. It's about the issue that the committee really hasn't picked up the information it was given and had a fulsome discussion with the people responsible for the redactions.
I won't repeat all the matters that relate to the Canada student service grant and its creation, but really, at the end of the day, we have students who aren't getting served because of what is going on in this room. Even if we could find a way to bridge these cabinet confidences, we're still not serving the people we're trying to serve by getting them the funding that we were trying to get them. It's an unfortunate situation that we have in front of us.
The day the prorogation occurred.... I was in the House earlier, and the Conservatives were mentioning prorogation. The government House leader's office released these documents for all of us to read. We had some days to read those. We went from having a COVID-19 committee in Parliament to going toward having a full Parliament, which was scheduled in September. We lost three days in the House because of prorogation in order to get a throne speech. In the meantime, the committee could continue this work—