I'll leave it there.
I'll tell you what. Because you can't adequately answer this in 30 seconds and I do need to take care of this business, if I've planted a seed in your brain, maybe you could come back to the answer or one of my colleagues can follow up with you as you think about how you might answer that.
Chair, thank you for giving me notice. I'm sorry that I had to give that much of a soapbox perspective on things.
Chair, I need to put on the table something that's on notice of motion, something that I think has been botched by our committee, if I might take that perspective. That is the fact that with all that's going on, with the chaos in the government today on all that's going on with SNC-Lavalin, we had a minister who resigned from this ministry.
Prior to that, we had a minister. Then Madam Jody Wilson-Raybould came into the position and resigned from her position. Then we had a temporary minister, Mr. Sajjan, who is also the Minister of National Defence. Now we finally have a permanent minister, but there was this whole transition and the ongoing chaos on the government side with SNC-Lavalin and the scandal that involves her testimony to the justice committee. The Prime Minister finally has seen fit to put in a permanent minister.
The reason I'm describing that to you is that this motion deals with that minister coming to this committee to answer the questions around what are called the supplementary estimates (B), the allocation of money for the use of veterans and the payment of money. As a committee, we have a solemn responsibility to make sure that funding goes to the front lines, to where it's most important to veterans. It's intertwined a bit with this, but not a whole lot.
That said, Chair, I'd like to move this motion:
That the committee invite the Minister of Veterans Affairs, the Hon. Lawrence MacAulay, to appear on the Supplementary Estimates (B) on March 20, 2019.