Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mel Cappe did not appear before the committee as a witness with respect to this affair, so why should we refer to him? If we do that, we may as well refer to judges and anyone else in the country who might have said something. These people are making a federal case of this. Mr. Lukiwski himself said that Mr. Cappe had not appeared before the committee to discuss that specific issue. If witnesses did not appear before the committee, we cannot refer to them in the report. If they were anxious to have a specific witness appear before the committee to discuss the case of Ms. Oda, they could certainly have done that. But they did not. I see no reason why this is relevant here. Otherwise, we can refer to just about anyone. We're talking about the report here.
On March 24th, 2011. See this statement in context.