Thank you, Madam Chair. It's a real pleasure to be back at your committee.
Madam Bennett, it's always a pleasure to discuss things. Even though we sit across from each other, we don't get to talk—except maybe when we're shouting at each other, off record.
Last week I was at Ontario Superior Court with former Chief Edmund Metatawabin and the survivors of St. Anne's residential school. They brought forward an appeal on non-disclosure of sworn evidence that's in the hands of the Government of Canada. That evidence comprises the sworn testimonies from the survivors of Indian residential schools—relating to child abuse, sexual assault, and other crimes—obtained by Canada prior to the settlement agreement of 2006. The surprising thing that's come out of the St. Anne's hearings is that the government is in possession of documents relating to 14,000 civil actions that were brought by survivors, some of them from St. Anne's but also from across Canada.
Can the minister tell us if those transcripts of examinations for discovery from plaintiffs suing for institutional child abuse prior to 2006 were disclosed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission before it was extinguished?