Mr. Speaker, the Department of National Revenue takes very seriously its responsibility to protect the confidentiality of taxpayer information. Departmental security officials are in the process of investigating how these documents were made available. The department has a very clear cut procedure to deal with these kinds of things. There may have been a defect but I can assure the House that the department is on the issue.
In the House of Commons on November 4th, 1996. See this statement in context.