Mr. Chair, again, Mr. Ehsassi misrepresents what was said. I never said that this is a flawed process for the justice committee to hold hearings. I said, in the absence of another process, this is the only mechanism that is available to bring in witnesses and get answers about this very serious breach that took place, in terms of the leak. I reiterate that point.
With respect to Mr. Ehsassi's comment about new safeguards, what safeguards is he proposing? What safeguards is the government proposing? Yet, there he is, asserting that there are going to be new safeguards.
On what basis, Mr. Ehsassi? I suspect it's on no basis at all. It's just more words coming from the government to try to change the channel, to confuse, to suggest there's nothing to see here and it's all under control, even though we know that, from the very beginning, the Prime Minister has said there's nothing to see here. The Attorney General said there's nothing to investigate there. Why is there nothing to investigate? He takes the word of the Prime Minister, a proven liar who has repeatedly changed his story on the SNC-Lavalin scandal each and every day.
I will go back to Mr. Ehsassi's comments about whistle-blowers and somehow characterizing officials, whether they be in the Department of Justice or in the Prime Minister's Office, who leaked information for clearly political reasons to undermine the former attorney general—