I'm so sorry, Mr. Larkin, but I've let you go significantly over the time allotted for opening statements. Your testimony is important, but we're going to have to get to questions from members.
Even before we do that, I will say on behalf of the committee that voted for some very specific information from the RCMP that it was quite disappointing, in fact, troubling, to receive in Commissioner Lucki's letter what amounts to just a point-blank refusal of information.
As Canada's grand inquisitor, a committee of Parliament has unfettered power to request documents. We can have a discussion about the appropriateness, and you touched on that in your remarks. I look forward to the discussions that we'll have from the parties about that, but a blanket refusal to a committee is troubling. We'll get to that, I'm sure, with questions from committee.
With that, I will go to the first round that will begin with Mr. Bezan.