Certainly my colleague from the Bloc, Mr. Ménard, indicated that the Canadian Police Association has given us very good advice, and it is certainly independent of government, but there are all types of other individuals who provide us with advice. For example, when the former government had that inquiry a number of years ago into APEC, into the riots that had occurred—maybe “riots” is a little too strong a word—as I recall, it was Justice Hughes who did an excellent report into that entire situation—the relationship of the police to the enforcement of law, the relationship of government to giving police orders. It was an incredibly helpful piece of work. I can see that governments have in fact reacted in many cases to those types of reports. On the O'Connor report on Arar, Justice O'Connor did excellent work--23 recommendations that our government has accepted, and some of them involve the changing of laws.
What I find puzzling is the staunch defence of the Law Commission of Canada by Liberals who totally ignored the reports, never had a response, and then come to the committee and say, this is horrible that the funding has been cut off because of all these wonderful reports--reports that they never once acted on.
What Canadians are telling us is they want us, as parliamentarians, to spend money efficiently and effectively, and that's exactly what we are doing.