Okay. Here we go.
Thank you, Mr. Mazier.
Honourable members, I will read the question of privilege regarding the minister's involvement with Infoway. This is from Dr. Strauss, not from me:
Mr. Chair, I'd like to raise a question of privilege on a related matter. Yesterday, during question period, the Minister of Health was asked about the dismissal of Michael Green, the former CEO of Canada Health Infoway. The minister stated, “I spoke to the board of directors, and they took the necessary steps.” The minister told the House of Commons that she personally intervened with Infoway's board and that Mr. Green's firing was the result of that intervention.
On Tuesday, May 5, 2026, this committee heard directly from Dr. Peter Vaughan, the chair of Canada Health Infoway's board of directors. Dr. Vaughan was asked whether the current federal health minister had ever personally raised concerns with him or the board about the $300 million spent on PrescribeIT. Dr. Vaughan's answer was clear. He said no. In fact, he stated, “The answer is no.”
These statements cannot both be true. Either the Minister of Health told the House of Commons yesterday that she spoke to the board when she had not, or the chair of Canada Health Infoway told this committee on Tuesday that the minister had never raised concerns when she had.
The House of Commons and its committees depend entirely on receiving truthful information from ministers and witnesses. When contradictory statements are made to the House and to a committee within days of each other, members of Parliament cannot do their job, and Canadians cannot get the truth.
I will draw the committee's attention to House of Commons Procedure and Practice, fourth edition, chapter 3, which confirms that the “provision of deliberately misleading information to the House” by a minister has frequently been raised as a matter of privilege. It also sets out a three-part test. The statement must have been misleading, the person must have known it was incorrect, and they must have intended to mislead.
These two statements—the minister's claim that she had spoken to the board and the chair's testimony that she had not—cannot both be true. At least one of them was knowingly false. I therefore move that this committee report to the House that the testimony of Dr. Peter Vaughan before the Standing Committee on Health on Tuesday and the statements of the Minister of Health in the House of Commons yesterday are directly contradictory, that Parliament has been misled, and that this matter constitutes a breach of privilege.
Thank you, Chair.
Do you want me to start from the beginning now?