Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Deputy Commissioner Larkin, my staff just sent me something here, so I do have to ask you about this. This is from a Global story posted May 21, 2026.
You were here for the minister's remarks, Deputy Commissioner, so you heard him when he said that the release of the MOU was the sole prerogative of the government. Now I'm reading a Global story by Sean Boynton from May 21, 2026. I haven't even read to the end of it yet. This is what it says in the first paragraph:
The RCMP says it won't release the full agreement it signed with China's Ministry of Public Security without Beijing agreeing to do so, despite demands from the federal Conservatives and NDP for answers on what it contains.
That was seven days ago. I know I'm putting you in a very difficult position here, Deputy Commissioner, in asking you about the RCMP's position on this. If we need to suspend for a few seconds so you can read the story, I'm happy to do that, as long as we extend because this is pretty important. We just had the minister tell us it's the government's prerogative, and it has nothing to do with China.
The story goes on to say:
“The RCMP will not unilaterally make public or share the contents of an MOU with a third party without the concurrence of the other party,” Percival said.
“As such, the RCMP is not releasing the contents of the MOU at this time.”
Clearly the RCMP's viewpoint is that it needs the agreement of a third party.
This is what the story says:
The statement added that such agreements are “a very common practice between national law enforcement agencies” seeking new or enhanced co-operation, and the RCMP has many MOUs in place with agencies around the world.
Then it goes on to say:
While the full text of many of those MOUs that were signed with China has been released, the one with China's Ministry of Public Security has not.
I wish I had seen this before, when we could have asked the minister about it.
I understand that you're probably in a terribly difficult position because you haven't seen this. Are you able to comment on this at all, Deputy Commissioner?