Mr. Mayrand, you talk about compelling witnesses. I spent 30 years in policing and investigated crimes from petty thefts to homicide. Police officers don't have that power. My colleague across the floor talked about wiretaps. Wiretaps are not compelling. I know in the Criminal Code terrorism is one of those sections. I don't think we would equate this to terrorism.
Now I know the CRTC has penalized the sitting member for Guelph and the sitting member for Ottawa Centre for the improper use of the telephone. They don't have that ability. They were able to do their job with respect to penalties.
The other area I have a concern with is you already had, in my understanding, the evidence of a large illegal donation to one of the parties, and all that was demanded was the payment back of it. Somehow there seems to be a difference here. That didn't take any compelling testimony. You were able to obtain that. I would say to you, sir, for the most part police officers do their jobs investigating large crimes, including homicide, gangs, and everything else, without that availability.
Do you not think there's something missing in the picture? I'm sure if we were to bring in legislation that said everybody is compelled to tell the police everything they know about a crime, my colleagues across the floor would go ballistic.