I believe that I said “mislead” and not “deliberately mislead”. I'll put the words of the Prime Minister into the record. He stated, “CSIS made the determination that it wasn't something that needed to be raised to a higher level because it wasn't a significant enough concern.”
Those were the Prime Minister's words. He made that categorical statement, except for the fact that this was simply not true. CSIS had alerted the PCO. They had shared that information with the relevant departments. It's not as if the Prime Minister said that he didn't know and that this was the first he learned of it. He very specifically said that they made a determination not to raise it to a higher level. Why would he mislead Canadians on something as serious as that?