Thank you, Mr. Giroux.
Mr. Chair, from the outset, I have been listening attentively to the questions dealing with the cost of Canadian warships and to the answers that the Parliamentary Budget Officer is providing. I also have in my hand the 2019-20 departmental results report from Public Services and Procurement Canada. It often mentions expenditures related to naval construction. According to what I have been told, the minister is not able to come and testify before the deadline for the supplementary estimates (C). The Parliamentary Budget Officer is telling us about billions of dollars in expenditures, for which the minister is directly responsible. We certainly have questions for her about this.
I would like to introduce a motion that is directly related to the topic we are discussing today. It reads as follows:That the Chair of the Committee writes to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement on behalf of members of this committee in order to express their serious concerns in relation to the Minister’s lack of availability to testify before this committee and answer their questions related to procurement, including the Canadian Surface Combatants, during the study of the Supplementary Estimates (C) 2020-21.