Thank you, Mr. Chair.
On several occasions over the past few years, the minister in charge of official languages, Ms. Mélanie Joly, told us that the committee was independent. So I respect her position that the committee is independent and that it can choose its own debates and fights.
We have been unable to debate this issue since we returned to Parliament. But we now have the opportunity to determine once and for all what happened. I remind you that this is, after all, a contract nearing $1 billion where francophones were explicitly forgotten.
All governments must be accountable to Parliament, and we must ensure that something like this would not happen again. As parliamentarians sitting on a committee like the official languages committee, it is our role to make sure of this.
The fact that the committee is managing not to debate this motion is contrary to the spirit of our role of parliamentarians and representatives of our respective regions. I sincerely believe that we must get to the bottom of this issue, so that this would never happen again.
I hope that we will be able to vote on this as quickly as possible.