Here are the relevant passages from the Committee’s minutes of proceedings. It looks to me like a right wing EDI-focused data mining operation wrapped in a veil of innuendo. I understand, which may not be correct, that the scene followed questioning of at least one research council president involving the reading out of individual project titles and researcher names, to guffaws. Certainly this has happened in Parliament many times, particularly on results day. https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes #highered