I thank my colleague for that. Certainly PROC is the appropriate place to deal with individual cases. That's why I said that it would not be appropriate at the ethics committee.
We don't know what all the Ethics Commissioner is going to find. He does not engage with us, so we have no awareness.
To me, the issue of the RCMP being concerned about money laundering and possible terrorist financing puts this into a different realm, which is why it's legitimate to ask the Privy Council and the Prime Minister's office to actually tell us whether there are protocols in place. Certainly one of the key jobs of the Privy Council is to protect the government in whole, not to protect the political party in power. The Privy Council has an obligation to oversee the practice of government.
Having been here these many years, I was actually pretty astounded that if there were that many red flags being raised about an individual, the Prime Minister's office said they learned about it when everyone else did, which is when they opened up the Globe and Mail. That's not a really good standard in terms of dealing with security risks.
I think that in the coming years we will see increasing security risks of foreign interference and that, so we need to make sure there are protocols in place. I think it's a fair motion.