Mr. Chairman, this may be a conclusion that the committee wishes to draw, or that Mr. Dosanjh wishes to draw. I had a whole bunch of hypotheticals put to me, which I have responded to.
Let me please finish, Mr. Dosanjh. I let you speak.
I made it very clear that I was not, and am still not, willing to talk about this particular case.
When you talk about not being forthright, I think you're implying that I intentionally misled the committee. I've been a police officer, Mr. Chairman, for 30 years. I've testified in court hundreds of times, and I've never been accused of not being forthright. Everything that I gave you, Mr. Dosanjh, and everything that I answered before this committee was said to the best of my knowledge at the time. Anything that I was not willing to answer, I was not willing to answer for RCMP policy reasons. The RCMP has a policy of not talking about anything we may or will be doing that could be compromised by what we might say. It doesn't necessarily mean that if I speak about something it will compromise; it may mean that it has the potential to compromise, so we try to stay away from it.
It is not accurate for you to suggest that because I followed that policy I was not being forthright with the committee.