Mr. Speaker, in the replies of both the Prime Minister and the Minister of National Defence today on the question of the mess at that department, we have received the ultimate in hypocritical answers by saying let the Somalia inquiry decide.
It was the defence minister himself who tried to get a friend of the government appointed as a commissioner of the inquiry. It is top military officials and officials of the department who have been implicated in fixing documents to be supplied to the commission. It is the government itself that has given legal help to some participants in the process but not others.
My question is for the Prime Minister. If the Prime Minister believes in letting the commission do its work, why does he not fire the Minister of National Defence and General Boyle for failing to do so?