Thank you, Madam Chair, and welcome to the committee.
I also want to recognize Ms. Vecchio. We are very good friends on this side.
I am a bit disappointed, even very disappointed, Minister.
Normally, Mr. Serré also participates in this kind of study. Today, however, we are all women here and we all agree that the red dress alert has to be implemented.
The government announced the meagre sum of $1.3 million in the budget. You will tell me that is better than nothing, but it is not much.
I did not really understand Ms. Gideon's answer a little earlier, when she said that you had not invested too much money because the investments were coming from partners. You can explain all that to us, but I am frankly disappointed.
I do not understand why, as we are speaking, you do not yet have a plan for implementing the alert.
If memory serves, the government held its first round table in January 2023. You have held only one meeting, and we do not know when the next one will be. You can explain all that to us.
The big question I am asking myself right now is whether you are encountering difficulties and resistance in provinces or territories or within organizations that would not approve the project.
Very sincerely, given everything there is right now, whether it be Amber alerts, grey alerts, or the experiences people have had more or less everywhere in Canada that we have been told about, what are you waiting for, to get moving and put this project in place?
It is not complicated. There are cell phones, there is television, there are programs, we have the CRTC, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
What is needed is political will. Do you have the political will, Minister?
We are very disappointed.