In 1999, legislation was passed making it an offence to destroy or attempt to destroy, mutilate, alter, falsify, or conceal a record with intent to deny a right of access.
You were sworn in on January 4, 2007. During public accounts committee hearings on June 11, 2007, there were very serious allegations made by two RCMP officers, Officer Michel Joyal and Superintendent Christian Picard. Your Conservative colleagues were at that meeting. I understand there may have been a staffer from the PMO there. So everyone was aware of these serious allegations that on an access to information request about Mr. Zaccardelli's expenses there was an attempt to block.
In fact, the officer in charge, Michel Joyal, was called into the commissioner's boardroom, and the deputy commissioner, Mr. Gauvin, provided alternate documents to do a switcheroo—documents that they had prepared, cooked up, to do a switch with the documents that were to be sent out. This was confirmed by Superintendent Christian Picard.
Why have you not acted on this? This is clearly a criminal situation.