Thank you, I would. I have two questions, depending on what the chair does with me.
The first question, Mr. Minister, is about the security certificate legislation that you've introduced. It allows only reliable and appropriate evidence to be produced by the government and to be relied upon by the judge. Why did you not see fit to expressly bar evidence that's the product of torture or degradation or inhuman treatment? As the law stands currently in Canada, the courts will regard that evidence as absolutely inadmissible. Why would you not expressly include that prohibition with respect to evidence that is the product of torture in the legislation?
Secondly, I'm veering off here and I know that the chair might say something. Will you let me put the question? You can rule it out of order.
Sir, this is about the CBSA. The CBSA report came yesterday. It made very clear to me that the disjointed reports are going to come from all the federal institutions to you, whether the police report, the Paul Kennedy review, or the CBSA. They're going to be disjointed, isolated from each other, and are not going to provide complete, comprehensive answers we're looking for. The B.C. process is the only process that is going to be able to provide the comprehensive answers, and unfortunately, ironically, B.C. has no jurisdiction on any of this.
Why would you not step up to the plate and order a full public inquiry that would look at all of the elements that are under federal jurisdiction and do your duty as the minister of the crown and not leave it to provincial jurisdictions that have no jurisdiction?