Although the deputy minister told you that the people replacing him know the file just as well as he does, we do not have any guarantee that these people were there when the decisions were made.
Given that this is an important issue, that hundreds of millions of dollars are involved and that we had agreed that the deputy minister was to appear to answer our questions, I believe that it is important that he come here himself. I am proposing this motion and I would like the committee members to be able to vote on it.