Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm simply basically reinforcing Ms. Brown's comments.
We heard earlier from Mr. Dosanjh that four of the five investigations, in fact those who are doing the investigating directly or indirectly, are involved in investigating themselves. That doesn't inspire confidence. For the one body that seems to be independent, it's really not within their area of jurisdiction.
It would be an abdication of our duties as elected officials, when something goes horribly wrong within our area of jurisdiction, not to at least make an effort to address the situation, especially in these particularly tragic circumstances and especially in an atmosphere in which the RCMP, unfortunately, has caused a great deal of discomfort because of their recent track record.
I sit on the public accounts committee. It took us a while, but we finally unravelled the rigged contracting scheme that three internal investigations--criminal, audit, etc.--didn't get to the bottom of. Fundamentally, what that underlines is that as a committee of Parliament we have the ability to get to the bottom of things that people investigating themselves don't.