Mr. Speaker, I can only assume that the member was not in the House, either that or he had ear plugs, when I made my presentation.
The fact is it is the Prime Minister, the solicitor general, the justice minister, the Liberal government that have made this a political process, an adversarial process.
Count it. There are over $2,000 an hour of legal fees either protecting the RCMP or protecting the Prime Minister in this process.
I cite again my example where with very high skill level the solicitor for the RCMP managed to twist the comments of the protester, of the complainant, and furthermore took documents that should never have been used. Had he a properly prepared lawyer on his behalf, Mr. Jones would never have seen those documents end up in the public record.
I saw what actually happened. Mr. Macintosh was asking Mr. Jones questions on the basis of the Jones-Milewski documentation. After he got Mr. Milewski's name into the record a couple of times he very quickly folded like a cheap deck of cards and sat down on that issue. He did not pursue it any further in spite of the fact that he had buck an unprepared Mr. Arvay. I say with the greatest respect unprepared because he does not have funding and did not have time to prepare himself.
Mr. Arvay was trying to stop the irrelevant insertion of these documents into the court proceedings. What the RCMP lawyer did by introducing that, I submit again, was to get Milewski off the case and the Prime Minister without the terrier on his ankle.