Madam Chair, I'll actually pull out the quote from the former chief of staff to Prime Minister Harper. He stated, “The Prime Minister's Office is not an investigative body. Senior officials in the Privy Council Office are the ones responsible for interacting with the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces with respect to this matter.”
That's exactly what I did. I forwarded the information to the Privy Council Office.
He also stated that “political staff and ministers clearly aren't investigative entities in our system of government”. That's his quote, and then—