Mr. Speaker, the hon. member errs in two respects in putting her question. First, she referred to a justice department investigation.
The police are the people who investigate, and it was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that conducted and is conducting an investigation into this case. The role of the Department of Justice, as the hon. member knows or perhaps should know, is that the international assistance group was asked to communicate to a foreign government a request for assistance in the course of that investigation.
The second error into which the hon. member fell was to assert there may have been no evidence from the outset. That too is a matter that relates to the police investigation. If the Royal Canadian Mounted Police chooses to start or conduct or conclude an investigation based on what it finds or does not find, that is for it to decide. The police in this country conduct investigations based on their own judgments.