Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, I don't doubt your good faith, but I'm having to follow up on this again.
I listed all the dates and the whole sequence of events, and I have to tell you, I don't think the government is taking this seriously. It should be transparent and provide the response to a legitimate request, which—I repeat—had the support of the committee members. The fact that the department, meaning the government, isn't providing a response is perplexing. Why is the government doing this? Does it respect the committee or see it as important?
Last week, the committee even had to delay giving the analysts drafting instructions for the report because it was missing information. Therein lies the rub. This is a very serious matter, and I feel it is my duty to bring it up again today. I'm going to read my motion, and I hope it will be adopted unanimously, so we can once again ask the department to send us all the information we asked for.
My motion reads as follows:That the committee ask the Department of Industry to provide the missing information relative to the question asked by Maxime Blanchette-Joncas to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during the meeting of February 2, 2023, that it do so before Thursday, May 4, 2023, at 11:00 a.m., and that the missing information provided be as follows: i) the number of scholarships granted in English…