Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to propose an amendment to the motion. I think it would probably make it stronger.
We've heard an awful lot of comments around this issue. Most of the times that the minister has come before the committee in recent months, whether the purpose of her visit was actually on this study or whether it was on estimates or whether it was on anything else, this subject tied it up.
We've heard debate in the House, and there's been a lot of discussion about the jury, and in the House there was a reference that the jury made a unanimous decision. I think that's an important element if we're going to dig into all of the other things that are contained in this production of documents motion. I would like to propose the following amendment to add another category of documents as paragraph b)(viii). It would be that we add “that Veterans Affairs Canada produce any correspondence received from members of the jury responsible for evaluating the final designs for the national monument to Canada's mission in Afghanistan since June 2023.”
I think that those documents would be relevant to assessing the claim of unanimity within the jury, whether there were preoccupations, whether any jurors had some concerns after the fact, what communication there was among members of the jury leading up to the decision and what communications there were between the jury and Veterans Affairs.
There have been public statements made that everyone was on the same page, but we don't know that. I think it's important, so I would like to propose that amendment to the motion.