This motion goes back to February 28, and it deals with a review of the acquisition of Retirement Concepts, to make sure the committee felt it satisfied the Investment Canada Act threshold. When the minister was here for the main estimates, he provided a poor answer to my question, in my estimation. That's backed up by the fact that there's zero information on Industry Canada's website with regard to the acquisition.
This committee is supposed to be one of the main areas where we're able to make sure that the minister is doing things correctly, and the public servants who work under him were satisfied with their work. Nobody's questioning their work here, but the fact remains that the only ability we have as a committee to verify on behalf of Canadian taxpayers that this was a good purchase, and it was a good purchase by a company that has no state resources—which is a bit of a stretch, in my opinion—is to take the minister's word for it in a one-minute answer. The answer was a bit confrontational, probably both ways. The fact that there is zero information on the Internet and zero ability to question anybody who works at Industry Canada, I think it really behooves this committee to do the work that's required.
Again, this would be only two meetings. I think that's what we had discussed before. There can be more to get an idea of what took place here. This will be the first of many. I think we should go ahead with this. I'd be interested to hear what the Liberals' perspective is on this. I think we should move forward on this motion.