Mr. Speaker, we learned a lot in the papers over the weekend about the Canadian army's actions in the Somalia scandal. We learn in fact a lot more from the papers than we do from the minister in this House.
On April 16, he said, and I quote: "This question casts aspersions on the Armed Forces and on the men and women who serve each day with distinction both at home and abroad. Everyone's reputation is being tarnished by incidents that occurred three years ago".
How could the Minister of National Defence talk in the House about events that happened three years ago, when he knew as he was making this statement here, following an investigation by military police, that documents were being illegally destroyed and falsified up to last September?