Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to open by saying that we came here prepared. We came here prepared to discuss the outsourcing of contracts. It is something that was actually put on the list back in February 2022 and hasn't gone anywhere. It's good that we're actually getting back to some business at OGGO. It is a relevant topic. This is something that all the departments have been actively working on, and there are a lot of good stories as far as what the government is doing and what the departments have been successful in doing.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Mills talked about all the initiatives the government has done to ensure that not only do they review, but also that they put new policies in place, so that we are ready to have that conversation. Yet we see our colleagues open up by wanting to do a deep dive on a case that's in front of the RCMP, and they're trying to prosecute this case as it has already been publicized on social media even before this meeting.
On that note, we would like to say that it it were about this, we would have engaged. However, now that we're going down the path of playing the partisan game, no, we're going to take the approach of having no meetings, unless there is an emergency, for the summer. This is a path that's available to us, and this is the path that we're choosing to take.
Had we not gone down that road and not taken that approach.... As as you can see, we provided the list of all the speakers and we are all ready to engage on that, and we would have engaged, but not now.
On that note, I yield the floor back to you, Chair. Those are the points I wanted to make: that we are ready to engage, but not if it's partisan, not during the summer and not for non-emergencies and the case that's in front of the RCMP.
Thank you, Chair.