Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank my colleagues for agreeing to make this meeting public. It is of general interest that a unique situation has arisen in this committee and that fairness be established between the various media, which serve as the fourth estate in Quebec and Canada. I'll read the motion again for those listening.
Given that the information contained in the written response from the Treasury Board Secretariat which was transmitted to committee members on April 15, 2024 appears to have been disclosed to a Globe & Mail journalist, as per the article titled Three firms tied to ArriveCan app got $1-billion in federal contracts, Ottawa reveals, published May 13, 2024, That the Committee make public on its website the said documents sent in the written response from the Treasury Board Secretariat dated April 15, 2024.
I've already expressed the reasons why I'd like to see this issue resolved quickly, so I won't expand on it too much. For questions of fairness, particularly with regard to French-language media who didn't have access to information in French as they should have, when this information and the documents were passed on only to a journalist from an English-language newspaper, it is important that the documents be officially made public. Moreover, since these documents constitute an answer to a question that had been asked in public, there is no problem with their being made public.
I hope my colleagues will agree to this motion so that this situation can be made, shall we say, acceptable and we can move on.