Mr. Chair, I want to come back to the terms “specifications” and “contribution agreement”. I saw in the news that an access to information request had been made to obtain the specifications for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic games, and that the government had denied the request.
If the government refused to provide a document, it means that it existed. Now, I will need Madam Clerk to help me with my research in order to find out what exactly was reported in the news. I find it a bit disturbing that I am being told today that the document never existed when I read in the news that the government refused to provide the document to the person who requested it.
So I agree with Mr. Bélanger. The committee should dig further into the issue to get the right information, especially since it was reported in today's Le Droit that there would be less French at the Paralympic games. But, as far as I know, that is still VANOC's responsibility. So there is something fishy here. We need to do more digging.