I guess it's hard for me to even understand why we as parliamentarians wouldn't want to have a look at this. This is a difficult thing for all members of Parliament to find that blur between our partisan job and our jobs as parliamentarians. Sometimes it can be a bit blurred, and I think it is the responsibility of this committee to find out if we can find out how that could be clearer in the future. It would be worth looking at this.
This is at least as urgent as it was for the staffer to send out the letter while the minister was still on the plane. This is very serious, and it was signed by the director of multicultural affairs in the office of the Honourable Jason Kenney. This is a real breach of that line. I don't think we would be doing our job as parliamentarians if we didn't ask the committee named for ethics to have a look at this and try to put some recommendations forward such that there would be even clearer guidelines for members of Parliament and particularly for ministers, and particularly for ministers who, in their partisan work, are targeting areas that are actually in the same areas as their ministerial responsibility.
I think if the Minister of Justice were writing letters to all the lawyers or all the judges, we would see that was clearly a breach. In our party we clearly separated the critic for immigration from the critic for multiculturalism because we think that it is problematic and a grey area.
As you know, for a long time I think this committee work has deteriorated down into everything by motion. I think the committee should agree to have a look at this issue of where we draw the lines and learn from this breach that has been apologized for, in a certain way. But it's clear that this wasn't right and it's clear that staffers and members of Parliament and ministers need much clearer guidelines or that this committee needs the ability to make the recommendations such that this never happens again.