Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the honourable members for their comments.
Mr. Erskine‑Smith said we needed to focus on what happened on July 8. I would remind everyone that, as Mr. Boulerice pointed out a moment ago, people really suffered because the outage deprived them of access to 911 and other emergency services.
When you're talking about public safety issues that serious, I don't think we are straying from what we are trying to do by asking the Minister of Public Safety to appear and tell us what he's thinking in terms of fail-safe mechanisms and backup solutions.
Should we instead always leave public safety in the hands of other organizations and depend on the safety measures they take when it comes to 911 and other emergency services?
Personally, I'm not opposed to having that discussion at a later time, if that is the will of the committee, in order to focus on the actual outage and ways to avoid these consequences going forward.
However, the committee really needs to take an in-depth look at the collateral damage that a similar outage could have in the future. I think that's a much more serious problem.