That's April 23, more specifically.
Specifically—and I'll be very brief on this—I know that Treasury Board collects information, and I am happy to read the email that Mr. Huppé sent out in March 2020, an entire year ago. It says, “TBS efforts to collect estimated expenditures related to Canada’s COVID-19 Economic Response Plan have been done on an exceptional basis, and these efforts have not been audited.”
It also says that TBS “has reached out to organizations to gather spending data related to COVID-19 on a monthly basis, recognizing that the ability to effectively track expenditures attributable to the COVID-19 response”.
Also in that same email, Treasury Board sent out an Excel spreadsheet to every single chief financial officer, asking for incremental expenditures, such as salary, overtime, operations—i.e., purchases—travel, grants, contributions, stat expenses and non-incremental expenditures, and asking for comments and current monthly expenditures.
The reason I bring this up is that it is very clear that Treasury Board reached out to all the CFOs in March 2020 to provide this information to Treasury Board. Treasury Board has this information—that's very clear—yet Treasury Board has refused the request from this committee to provide such information.
I would like to have Treasury Board please attend and explain to the Canadian people, the public, taxpayers and Parliament why it decided to ignore or defy a request from the committee.