I have the question we're discussing here. I have it:
“Mr. Speaker, for almost a year the RCMP commissioner knew about the misappropriation of moneys”--that is something, by the way, that's alleged here in Mr. Lewis's report, which you have--“from the RCMP pension funds. In fact, it was that commissioner who shut down the initial probe”--you knew that, as well--“into the possible fraud and abuse of authority within the force. Only after the scandal was made public in the media was the Ottawa police service called in to investigate”.
“My question is for the Minister of Public Safety. Are the Ottawa police investigating the commissioner's conduct as well as the misappropriation of funds?”
Now, you stood up and said that none of the commissioner's conduct whatsoever needed to be investigated. Those were your words. Mr. Sorenson referred here only to things you would have known about, because you were given them in this report from Mr. Lewis. And I have it right here. I have the document number.... It's from Ron Lewis. He copied you on a note he had written to the CHRO on January 4, 2004, in which he said: “The Commissioner contacted me by phone within a couple of days to advise me that he stopped the investigation”.
All these accusations that Mr. Sorenson put forward in the question to you, you were aware of, because they were in a package that you say you had received and reviewed. Yet you prejudged the outcome of that criminal investigation by standing up in the House of Commons and saying, “there is no conduct on the part of the commissioner that needs to be investigated”. That's what you said.