Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thanks to you, Minister, and to all of the departmental staff, for joining us today to answer any questions we may have.
I do believe, Minister, that your government has another live political grenade that's about to go off. I believe that only someone from your government can put the pin back in and prevent this story from blowing up. I'm referring to the situation with iChurchill Inc. and the planned purchase of the Hudson Bay railway. I'm going to list a number of the facts as I understand them.
In March 2018, iChurchill signed a letter of intent with OmniTRAX. After the letter of intent was signed, OmniTRAX notified the government's lead negotiator that they had come to terms with a prospective buyer of the assets. After notification was given, OmniTRAX was informed by the government's lead negotiator that the federal government was pursuing a deal with another firm.
I do want to make it clear, because perhaps I wasn't last week when I asked you some of these questions in the House, that I am not asking you to publicly discuss the negotiations. I just want to know: of the three facts that I've listed, are there any untruths or partial untruths contained in what I've said?