I was just thinking in terms of my own experience as a member of Parliament. I've dealt with various departments, asked for various briefings. In fact I was heading to a briefing once with a first nation community dealing with a health crisis, and when we got to the meeting the bureaucrats told us that they couldn't meet with me even in the room, because suddenly, according to the Conservative protocol, that would make that immediately a political meeting. Yet a communications officer for the Prime Minister attends the meeting, and you don't have any protocols in place, nothing? It's just that that's common practice?
On April 15th, 2008. See this statement in context.