In a letter you sent to the Standing Committee on Finance, you mentioned that Parliament's power to order the production of documents is absolute.
Under the Constitution, no act can preclude that, not even the Privacy Act, to which Parliament is not subject. The only limits on Parliament's power to order the production of documents is the common sense of parliamentarians, who must consider the public interest in their requests.
In that context, would the $9 billion spent to buy vaccines not be a matter of public interest, especially when we know that our country probably paid a lot more than others?
Considering the public interest, how could we frame a request for access to that information?
Did we pay too much for our doses, especially last December? How much did we pay for Justin Trudeau's marketing campaign on the 249,000 doses, just to stay up with other countries, even though we knew very well that we were way behind?