Mr. Speaker, I want to return to the Somalia affair.
Last week, one of the commissioners released a book in which he alleges that the then deputy minister, now the Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, did not tell the whole truth about his activities in the Somalia affair.
I would like to know why the government does not allow the ambassador, as he is now, to give interviews, at least to the media, on this matter. Why is he hiding behind his title in order to avoid setting the Canadian public straight?