Mr. Speaker, that answer is obvious because this whole process has been tainted. They had no other choice.
The Prime Minister even today has used the minister's second letter of September 30 as a defence that there was no intervention and that nothing was done wrong. We also know now why this second letter was missing from the CRTC file.
The secretary general of the CRTC says that the second letter was never put in the file because it came too late to be considered by the CRTC. This means that when the CRTC made its decision it was always under the impression that the minister had intervened and it remained so.
Given this new information, how can the Prime Minister possibly continue to defend the integrity of his minister?