Mr. Speaker, the Minister of National Defence has placed himself right in the middle of the Somalia scandal.
The minister's department altered and destroyed documents on his watch. The minister recommended a chief of defence staff who was, by his own admission, aware of the plan to deliberately tamper with evidence.
The minister's own staff officer was part of the Somalia working group. It is time the minister came clean with Canadians. The Minister of National Defence is responsible to Parliament for these errors in judgment. Will he do the honourable thing and resign?