Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I have to say that I'm quite concerned. Following my colleague Mr. Sarai's comments, we're just over an hour and a half into testimony. There have been about five rounds of questions for the Conservatives, and I think at least three of those rounds were focused on information that was given as background to the media and confirming that the information was not classified. We know this by the sheer fact that their own leader received the same information, and we all know he doesn't have a security clearance. Information that was provided to all leaders was also provided to the media, and Conservatives have spent at least three of their rounds on that issue—information that their party already had.
Then there's what we just heard from Mr. Motz. Instead of to Mr. Sarai's point about the very real threat to community members—I can only imagine how it felt and feels to hear these reports—Conservatives just went around asking about Canadian criminals in India. Not a single question was about the fact that the Indian government worked with organized crime—this is what is being alleged in the media—to target Canadians with violence. There's a murder investigation. There are other investigations ongoing, and there was not a single question from the Conservative Party about how that might impact our community here in Canada. In terms of asking about Canadian criminals abroad, I would think Canadians across this country, in particular in the Sikh community, the Indo-Canadian community, must find very cold comfort in what we just saw. I don't know how to continue to not call that out for what it is. I just think that Canadians deserve better.
I thank all of you for being here to try to shed some light on this.
We have our top security officials here for almost two hours, and that's the quality of question we had. I have to look at it from the community's perspective, and I'm quite disappointed that that's how the time was spent. It is for Conservatives to answer to constituents across this country as to why they would rather not call out the alleged actions of the Indian government, which have been widely reported.
With that being said, I want to speak to Madame Drouin. In terms of the sharing of that information with media, you mentioned something that was not brought up in the three panels of questions obsessing over that instead of over the safety of Canadians. It's the fact that those reporters and the journalists had other sources, and that, had Canadian representatives and officials not responded with the Canadian side of things, there was an understanding that they were dealing with a lot of misinformation that would have been left unchecked. Was it part of the strategy to ensure that information the Conservative Party already had was also shared with journalists, to make sure that misinformation wouldn't go unchecked?