Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the member. I have two questions which are fairly straightforward, things he ought to be able to answer.
He says he just wants to have the public complaints commission do its job. The public complaints commission has instructed its counsel to request from the solicitor general funds for legal representation for the students.
Would the member encourage the solicitor general to do that in allowing the commission to get on with its job? If his answer to that is no, he has gone on to say that this is not a judicial inquiry or a court room, they are not before a judge and they do not need lawyers. If that is the logic I ask him if he would instruct his caucus colleagues to suggest that the government withdraw its own lawyers and answer the question why they need them if the students do not.