The Ethics Commissioner, then, did provide a rationale for what he needed and why he needed it in the context of that cabinet confidentiality dispute—we are now discussing another today—and still the government prevented him from receiving it.
So allow us, Mr. Clerk, to be suspicious about the government's, and particularly the Prime Minister's, good faith when it comes to the application of so-called cabinet secrets. If so-called cabinet secrets were used as a pretext to prevent the truth from coming out in the last scandal, why should we not believe it would happen in this scandal?