Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is the second time that I am somewhat surprised by one of the amounts. This is the unit cost for videoconferences, i.e. $600. In the regions, I have sometimes had to use this type of service and the cost was $150 for two hours. This $600 per videoconference seems high to me, especially since we have had a few problems in that regard. In Sept-Îles, if memory serves, we lost contact about seven times in two hours.
How is this $600 price per videoconference justified? I'm thinking about taxpayers. My friends in the government party will be sensitive to that aspect of the question.
What happens in a case such as the one we saw in Sept-Îles? I do not know who the supplier was, but the service was only passable at best. We only had the audio during part of the meeting, the video image kept freezing, and so on. How does the committee manage these files? Must we really pay $600 for a simple videoconference contract which on top of everything does not provide good service in some cases? I'd like to know how this all works.