Chair, I want to take a minute to quickly respond to Ms. Shanahan's very animated opinions on what Parliament can and can't do.
A majority of members of the House of Commons passed a motion. That's important. It was a majority of members of the House. The Liberals want to act like they have a majority, but certainly they don't. A majority of members saw the corruption of this Liberal government and passed this motion. The motion calls for documents to be sent to the RCMP.
Ms. Shanahan read a letter. I just want to share a quote from the parliamentary legal counsel in his letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons: “The power to send for documents is absolute and unfettered—period. It is a constitutional parliamentary privilege not limited by statute. As such, the House is not constrained by statutory obligations contained in legislation such as the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act. I also note that the order did not contemplate that redactions be made to the document or that information be withheld.”
It's without limit. It's absolute. They may not like it, and they certainly don't seem to understand it, but it's the law. A majority of members of the House, democratically elected, made that decision. We know that their Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, favours a dictatorship, but that's not how our system works.
The commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police does report to a minister in Justin Trudeau's cabinet, as per section 5 of the RCMP Act, but the RCMP, of course, has full and final discretion on the investigations they launch. That's not going to stop Parliament from doing its job. We'll make the information available. The RCMP can choose to investigate or not.
Much to the chagrin of Mr. Trudeau and his Liberal members, this is a democracy, not a dictatorship. A majority of members of the House made a decision. They can call independent officers of Parliament here to get them to opine on it, but it doesn't change the fact that it's legal and it's the right thing to do, especially after nine years of the most corrupt government in history. That's what we have with these members and that Liberal government.
Commissioner, I want to move on to yet another Liberal scandal. Did you have an opportunity to review the testimony of Mr. Stephen Anderson, who's the business partner of Justin Trudeau's minister from Edmonton, Randy Boissonnault? He recently appeared at the ethics committee. Did you have an opportunity to review that testimony, sir?