Madam Speaker, I would like to say to the hon. member for Lotbinière that my French is still as bad as ever.
Therefore, for the time being I will speak to him in English because I lost the first part of his intervention in French and I apologize to him for that. As he well knows, I like to, when I can, respond to him in his first language. For clarity, let me do it in the other language that I am working on, English.
If he is talking about the reforms generally, I say to him that this certainly is the place to discuss everything, but certainly not the agenda item.
This agenda item is not talking about UI reform. We are talking about a very simple administrative change that would make it possible for the commissioner of the RCMP to enforce the law. It is simply that. There is nothing very sinister here.
We have on our statute books all kinds of examples where there is certain access to information for prosecuting alleged criminal offences. Therefore there is nothing sinister in this legislation so far as that item is concerned. It is a very simple administrative provision that would allow the commissioner of the RCMP to have access to certain client information, UI client information for the purpose of prosecution.
If members subscribe to the basic tenet of law and order, then I do not think they can argue with the need for the commissioner of the RCMP to have access to that kind of information. I do not know whether that answers the member's question. I might have missed something else. If so, I would be glad to hear from him again.