Mr. Speaker, there is an old saying that if a person wants to be their own lawyer they have a fool for a client, speaking to the idea that no one should go into a forum like that without representation.
There is an even more pertinent point in law which says that a person can be presumed to have intended the probable consequences of his or her actions.
I raise this now because I would like to hear the hon. member's views on this. Could it be that the probable consequences of denying representation to the students are that the government does not want the message to come out? It does not truly want to reach the truth or the bottom of this whole story, where these orders really came from or if there was political interference into the police force of the country. Could it be we have people who are deliberately trying to avoid getting to the truth by doing just as we fear, denying representation and advocacy for those students, the predictable consequences we are well aware of?