Further to the comments made by colleagues, I tend to agree with Mr. Masse and with some of the points Mr. Garon made.
When we froze funding for SDTC, we heard very strongly about the impact that it had on the clean-tech industry in Canada. Those companies went through significant struggles as a result, and not necessarily through any fault of their own. Think about the large portfolio of companies that SDTC funds and the impacts on all of them from having their funding frozen because of a number of technical violations by board members who didn't recuse themselves but rather abstained. There have been significant effects on the clean-tech industry as a direct result of funds being frozen. If all of a sudden we are questioning every funding decision that's been made under the new structure and the new governance model, is that really our role? The contribution agreements contain information submitted by those companies when they go through the very rigorous process, and they are not thinking that information will be made public.
The other thing is that Mr. Généreux has already introduced an amendment to this motion, contrary to what was said here by other members, that takes the request for the production of documents all the way back to 2018. If this were really focused on moving forward, where we started from was 2024, and now you've introduced an amendment to gather and produce documents all the way back to 2018. That is not consistent with what the Conservatives made in terms of arguments here. I don't know what the motivation is. It seems as though it's to keep studying this and studying this and studying this to catch some headlines and make more news stories on their social media sites and to claim things that are untrue.
There's no doubt there were some technical violations by the board, and they should have been held accountable, and they were held accountable. The organization was dissolved and reconstituted and is now under a new governance model. I think this is what we all think should have happened, and it is what happened. I just wanted to make those couple of points. I'm sure we could debate this for a lot longer, but perhaps we can get to a vote on it.