Yes, Mr. Speaker, I will.
Let me say this in response to the hon. member's question. He speaks about my skilfully trying to distance myself from events. That is not the case. What I have been trying to do last week and today is to explain and emphasize for the hon. member and his colleagues that we are dealing with two different matters. It is neither accurate nor appropriate to mix them.
On the first hand we have a Minister of Justice who receives information about an alleged wrongdoing in the past government who, in discharge of a responsibility, after consulting with the
deputy minister and the solicitor general, communicates that to the police. The hon. member for Calgary Southwest last week conceded that that indeed is the proper course.
A second and separate matter is the decision by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for its own reasons to commence its own investigation at a later time on the Airbus matter. It is separate. It is different. It is a matter for the police to decide.
If the hon. member can understand that those two matters are separate, he will be a long way down the road to understanding these matters.