Mr. Speaker, because, quite simply, the work is not done and Canadians deserve the whole truth, not this government whitewash.
The exact problem is the absence of responsibility and accountability. It appears there are lots of smoking guns in this issue but nobody wants to identify the shooter. The victim in all this is the Canadian taxpayer. The committee has been deemed a farce by the Prime Minister. The judicial inquiry will not complete its work until December 2005, a full 18 months from now.
Why is the Prime Minister killing the efforts of the public accounts committee to deliver on his promise to the Canadian public to get to--