Mr. Chair, fundamentally the issue we're raising is that the commission had a five-year mandate. This was a very large task. As we say in the chapter, Archives Canada estimated that there are at least 20 kilometres of documents to be searched. In order for this to happen over that five-year time period, we wanted to see both parties start out with a project-management approach and define what needed to be done, where they needed to search for documents, and what the timeframes were. That didn't happen.
We do state that many documents have been provided. We are concerned, though, about whether the quality of some of those documents is sufficient. On the other hand the Truth and Reconciliation Commission has accepted those documents and put them in their database without there being an agreement on quality. Our concern is with what's going to be accomplished over this five-year period, whether at the end of it the relevant documents of the appropriate quality are going to be there, and whether everyone can agree that this does represent the historical record of what occurred at the Indian residential schools.