Mr. Speaker, we know that the Minister of National Defence has said the same thing very often, that he refuses to budge. That we know.
If I understand the response correctly, the government tolerates its chief of defence staff lying with impunity to his own military police and, what is more, refusing to submit to any cross-examination. We also learned that he had the support of five officers-the Canadian Army camouflage brigade no doubt-in preparing his testimony before the inquiry, while the other witnesses had no such services available to them.
Can the government tolerate such a practice? Is this not utterly shameful?