Mr. Speaker, after months of trying to defend the shutting down of the Somalia inquiry and letting a political cover-up go unpunished, the Liberal government has finally admitted it was wrong. Unfortunately, instead of letting the inquiry commissioners get at the truth, the Liberals are trying to orchestrate a whitewash in the Senate.
My question is for the Minister of National Defence. Since the government now believes that the minister was wrong, why will it
not simply let the inquiry fulfil its mandate instead of trying to cover up the cover-up in the Senate?