It's no small wonder, given the gravity of what we have with the green slush fund corruption scandal, that an associate deputy minister was heard on a secret tape referring to exactly this. This is a sponsorship scandal-style level of corruption within the government, the likes of which he has not seen since the sponsorship scandal.
On the issue, then, of corruption, it's no small wonder that the opposition parties collectively voted in favour of an order for more transparency. What that entailed was essentially ordering documentation from the government, from the Auditor General and from the SDTC to shed more light. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau essentially said that sunlight was the best way to promote transparency and accountability. He ran on that in 2015.
The order of the House was made on June 10, 2024. On June 11, the clerk of the court sent letters to the Clerk of the Privy Council, the CEO of SDTC and the Auditor General of Canada to inform them of the order and that the documents were to be received by July 10, 2024.
It was no small surprise, given the level of corruption and secrecy behind this, that a great number of government departments and subsidiaries essentially redacted hundreds of pages of documents, pursuant to the order, which is the opposite of transparency and accountability.
I note that the Canada Revenue Agency heavily redacted; Innovation, Science and Economic Development heavily redacted and the National Research Council heavily redacted, as did Justice Canada and the Privy Council Office.
I want to confirm, from your perspective, that the documentation that SDTC provided pursuant to this order was completely unredacted.
Is that accurate?