Chair, I just read the part where it says that on November 9, PWGSC did provide the committee with the documents requested in the motion. Now, they are not translated, granted, but the documents have been provided to this committee.
Now, whether the chair or someone else wants to do a summation of those documents—and certainly I understand Madame Faille—my concern is...and sure, everything has a legitimate right, and it's a privilege of Parliament, to be translated. I certainly concur with that, but I also ask, is this expenditure worth the issue? I don't know, I really don't, but for me to go out and justify and validate spending a couple of million dollars, when, as Mr. Saxton says, it's not even before this committee, really.... This whole issue is being decided and/or discussed at the government operations committee, and we're just going to go ahead and indebt the Canadian taxpayer by another couple of million dollars on a potential wild goose chase?
I would like to have something more definitive to go forward on. If Madame Faille and/or the committee chair is able to come up with some summation of the information now before committee, and if there is that--quote--smoking gun, then by all means I think we could go ahead with that. But to make a commitment now and force the government into spending that kind of money when we really don't know exactly what we're asking for and have nothing specific to go on, I think is really, really an error in judgment on our part and it certainly wouldn't be accountable to the taxpayers.