Thank you very much. I'll be very brief.
There is one matter that I do want to raise. It's the third time that I have raised it, and it is with respect to the consolidated response.
It was on March 1 that the Prime Minister's national security adviser committed to provide responses to questions that had been put respecting dates on which the Prime Minister and PMO staff had been briefed about Beijing's election interference. On March 2, the director of CSIS committed to working with the PCO to provide a consolidated response, including the dates on which the Prime Minister, ministers, PMO staff, ministerial staff, and senior Liberal party staff were briefed about Beijing's election interference.
Respectfully, these are questions that the witnesses could reasonably have anticipated. They are not complicated. They require checking the calendars of those individuals the question was put with respect to when they were briefed.
Given that it has been nearly a month, let me say that this is really unacceptable, especially given the fact that we are going to be hearing from the Prime Minister's chief of staff within the next couple of weeks. It's imperative that we have that consolidated response within a reasonable time before Ms. Telford appears.
I would submit that the time that has lapsed has not been reasonable. This is a straightforward undertaking, and I would certainly hope that the Prime Minister's office isn't obstructing the work of this committee once again with respect to providing this information that the Prime Minister's national security adviser has undertaken to provide to this committee.