Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The next motion would be:
That the Procedure and House Affairs committee invite the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons to appear to answer all questions related to its study on the question of privilege related to “the matter of the premature disclosure of the contents of Bill C-14 (An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying)”.
To speak very briefly to it, Mr. Chair, I've listened to the arguments being made by the government today and in previous meetings. To me, it just seems like an attempt to make some kind of cover for the fact that they are not wanting to have.... It was made quite clear to us that there were other people who had access to this.
We called the Minister of Justice and were able to clear up the clouds over her head. Obviously, in this case of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, when we're talking about legislation being tabled, that's often a department that would have access to the legislation. Give them the opportunity to come in and to clear the names of the government House leader at the time and those in the government House leader's office. Give them the opportunity to clear those names and clear up the clouds hanging over their heads.
Again, we can always hope that the government members will choose to have the words of their whip match the actions of their government to do everything they can to ensure this won't happen again.