Just because we have the power doesn't mean to say we use it and bring into the public domain issues that are normally private. When the RCMP are conducting a criminal investigation they're entitled to conduct their business in private until charges are laid.
I find it disappointing that these witnesses who have been here many times think we're operating under access to information legislation, which we're not. We see in The Toronto Star today that people want to be subpoenaed by this committee rather than come here voluntarily. That shows a woeful, inadequate comprehension of the way the parliamentary committees operate with the RCMP.
I've always deferred to the people's right to privacy, and will only allow these names out in public if it's absolutely mandatory. This discussion we're having came from Mr. Wrzesnewskyj, who asked for the names of these people. They weren't being offered by Staff Sergeant Frizzell. Therefore I would ask that the RCMP continue with their presentation and leave the names out of it. Our own particular curiosity need not be satisfied at this time.
The issue of the 15 binders still remains to be resolved. Therefore I suggest that the RCMP give some thought to whether they're going to recall them so we never actually see them, or give them to us on the basis that they're embargoed—or we decide on what basis they will actually become public documents.