Mr. Speaker, I have a number of items I would like to raise but I will limit it to one or two.
The parliamentary secretary mentioned that the inquiry and the commission were really designed to operate without counsel. Yet we are seeing counsel on one side and not on the other. Twice the commissioners have asked for counsel to represent the students.
What we have heard and what we expect to hear further from the Liberals today is that the commissioners have the right to allocate some of their resources for the students to hire legal counsel.
Will the parliamentary secretary tell us right now if he believes the commissioners of the inquiry can give some of their $650,000 plus to the students so that they can hire lawyers? Does he believe that is true in spite of the opinion of the federal court which clearly says exactly the opposite?