Thank you, Chair.
Commissioner and counsel, welcome. It's always good to see you..
The first concern that I have is I'm quite astonished by the commentary from my colleague Ms. Khalid in terms of her interpretation of a demand for documents as seen fit by a majority of members of Parliament. As I'm sure you will agree with me, Mr. Commissioner, Parliament is supreme, and Committees are supreme. We can order just about anything we want, unfettered.
In fact, the House of Commons' top lawyer basically affirmed that position, that documentation needed to be produced to get to the bottom of yet another scandal by this corrupted Liberal government under Justin Trudeau.
Perhaps Ms. Khalid needs to be informed that simply obtaining documents and forwarding those documents to the RCMP are not and never would be seen to be interference. It aids in their investigation. She is somehow suggesting—wrongly, and deliberately wrongly—that by asking for documents and by furnishing documents to the RCMP, we are directing an outcome, which you know, Commissioner, is completely ridiculous. The RCMP are completely independent and are unfettered in their decision to lay charges or not. Would you agree with that?