Mr. Speaker, in response to questions from the Leader of the Opposition, the Deputy Prime Minister said on a number of occasions that the CSE is neither authorized nor mandated to spy on political figures. Nor was the RCMP authorized to commit crimes in 1970, but this did not stop it from doing so just the same, and under a Liberal regime at that.
We do not want to know whether the CSE is authorized or mandated to do it, but if it did do so. Can the Deputy Prime Minister, from her seat, assure us that it did not? Can she give us this assurance?