Obviously Mr. Abbott has admitted to making a misleading statement. It also means that the answer to the order paper question was misleading, because the order paper question answer, which was signed by the minister, which should also be part of the documentary trail in this discussion, clearly indicates that the minister was arguing that this was somehow a collective decision of CIDA and the government that was based on full documentation, when that's not the case at all.
I think that's as important an element of the argument about misleading as anything else. And I think if you're going to have a documentary trail, that has to be part of the documentary trial. That's the material that was discussed at the foreign affairs committee. That's the material that was before us when we cross-examined the minister in the foreign affairs committee in December. That's the material that was before the House when we had a series of questions to the minister. So that's the material, if you want to get at it. That's the issue here we're trying to deal with, in my view.
