Thank you, Mr. Chair.
How interesting. The only Liberal member who didn't take part in the negotiations is the one who's now lecturing me about intentions I didn't have. This is a far cry from good faith. Under the circumstances, all Quebeckers, especially seniors, are quite naturally wondering what the Liberals have to hide.
You know the procedure, Mr. Chair. A motion was moved. Obviously, when you make a request like that, you don't know how many documents it entails. If they tell me it could be a million documents, obviously, I'll act in good faith, and there will be discussions. There have been discussions with a number of government representatives over the past three days. However, I can't move an amendment to my own motion. That would have to come from the government, and no concrete solution has been put forward about what could be removed from this motion to make it realistic.
They're lecturing me again about how it's a million documents even though I've been open to the idea of excluding correspondence and emails, which might be too many documents to process in the time allotted. I thought we would be able to get other documents and hold committee meetings to ask those in charge about cost overruns amounting to billions of taxpayer dollars. That's what we're talking about.
The point is, they said it would be a million documents because of the correspondence and emails. I was open to the idea of leaving those out, and I was told that it would still be a million documents.
So who is lacking in good faith here? In my opinion, this shows that negotiating with the government and acting in good faith aren't productive.