Madam Chair, before we vote on this, I want to express my disappointment that the minister's office, and particularly the department, continually indicated that they would not provide a cost breakdown of the estimate they provided this committee.
How can we as parliamentarians vote to rescind the motion when we have no idea what the true costs are? I repeatedly asked for the cost breakdown and they—the minister's office and departmental officials—have repeatedly refused to provide that.
Sadly, I believe this is an affront to every parliamentarian who sits here. I asked that this information be shared with all members by way of you, Chair. Again, they refused. It leads to the question, what are they trying to hide? I was just asking for a cost breakdown of the dollar figure that my colleague provided.
Ultimately, we're going to vote on this, and the Liberals have the numbers and we'll vote to rescind.
Again, I think it's an insult to every parliamentarian here. I simply had a question on what the cost breakdown was for that money being spent. I don't want to spend an exorbitant amount of dollars on materials if we don't have to, but again, I think what's more insulting is the simple fact that they would not even provide a breakdown of what those costs entailed. Unfortunately, we will be voting against this.