Thanks, Chair.
I realize that my colleagues across the virtual aisle have to protest, but I'm disappointed that they continue with this misinformation. This has zero to do with a contract. I've stated that before. The motion very clearly states it. Several members have been on this committee from day one with me, and it's unfortunate that they're pushing this misinformation about a contract. This has nothing to do with a contract. It's about documents that came through an ATIP request that I believe were inappropriately redacted. The person associated with this has said to release them. Apparently he believes they were incorrectly redacted as well.
This goes to what I will call the open-by-default lie that the government constantly pushes. We saw it again just recently with the Cisco and Gartner issue. They redacted information for this committee, even though they had already posted it on the PSPC website. We've also seen Global Affairs pushing through contracts with a Chinese state-owned company for security technology for Canada, against the advice of PSPC and despite security issues.
We've seen repeatedly from this government and from the bureaucracy within this government a desire to hide information and be anything but transparent. We just want the unredacted emails, not the contract or the details of the contract. We want the unredacted emails that the subject himself has said to go ahead and release. If there's nothing there, I don't see why the government continues to be unopen by default.