Mr. Speaker, I ask the member to put the entire situation in proper context.
I first received five names from a media outlet. Upon receiving those names I wrote the chair of the board to have her look into the allegations made by these five individuals. In my letter to her I explicitly left out the names. I phoned her and verbalized the names. She did the same in her report.
Subsequent to that I asked through my counsel at justice that the deputy chair be seized with the chair's report and respond to the appropriateness of the recommendation. Following that the counsel to the deputy chair asked the counsel at the Department of Justice for the names in order that that individual may defend himself.
Only after advice from the Department of Justice was the advice that we had to give those names to the lawyer of the deputy chair. Nothing has been compromised. No one is above the law. This minister and this government have followed the process flawlessly.