Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to congratulate my colleague. I do support the motion she has put forward. We really do need to get to the bottom of this process.
We've heard a lot of obfuscation today with regard to the cover-up of material. We've only seen 8,000 pages or documents, I believe.
That has been very clearly stated by you, Mr. Dufresne, and we really appreciate your testimony today as well. It really clarifies this for any Canadians who are listening. As Parliament ends this session, the government is still not providing information on the table for Canadians to know what's going on, or even for us, as committee members, even though Parliament is supreme in this case and we really need to get to the bottom of it to find more information.
It was very clear that the contracts or what was at the base of this whole discussion right back from last fall...when were trying to outline the material facts of the possible contempt that was discussed with Mr. Matthews, the deputy minister of Public Services and Procurement Canada and deputy receiver general for Canada, concerning these documents ordered by the House on October 26 last fall. We really do need to get a report tabled as soon as we possibly can.
We asked for the Privy Council to be here today as well, and they aren't here, so why not? Others have made an attempt to be here. They've even had extra time. We've had an extra couple of days here because this was supposed to have happened on Monday, so there is no reason why we couldn't have had people show up on the very last day of Parliament before it recesses for the summer to provide the information that's required to get to the bottom of the cover-up that the government has had with regard to not wanting to discuss any of the information with regard to the contracts.
I think it's very clear that getting to the bottom of the matter is not what the Liberals want to do.