Mr. Speaker, the member alleged—and I believe he is a lawyer—that only the presence of lawyers in commissions like this one could ensure the resolution of the facts, could ensure the facts are established. Were we to accept that conclusion and the logic of the member who has just spoken, we would have to conclude that all previous grievances before the other quasi-judicial tribunals before which citizens did not have lawyers did not arrive at the truth.
In all modesty I have appeared before such tribunals and I say that quasi-judicial tribunals that do not need lawyers for representation of citizens have seen to it that the resolution of the facts, the search for the truth, was ensured. Therefore I have extreme reservation about the presumption of the member who has just spoken that only the presence of legally trained minds—and I have a son who is a lawyer—would ensure arrival at the truth.