Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm speaking against the motion.
We had a hearing with the Commissioner of the RCMP and the chief of police for the Ottawa Police Service. They told us that nobody had benefited from the misaccounting of the funds in the pension fund. There was no evidence that they felt they could use to go to court to obtain a prosecution. This is with about 16 people being assigned to this case over a number of months. Therefore, I don't know what we can do that they couldn't do.
As I've always said, Mr. Chairman, we are the institution that holds organizations accountable. There's no doubt that there were some lapses of authority here, where nobody was really disciplined. We agree with that, and they should have been. But the rules are the rules, and the courts have ruled that the time has expired, so nothing can be done. We had the full explanation here by the Commissioner of the RCMP that, yes, the deadline had been changed and they missed the deadline, and that's it. There wasn't sufficient evidence to support criminal charges in court. The crown prosecutor said they're not going forward with charges.
So I'm not exactly sure what we're actually going to achieve here, Mr. Chairman, because to get to the bottom of this serious issue—