Mr. Speaker, the justice committee experienced the same kind of situation.
I respect the suggestion of the hon. member who sits on the justice committee that perhaps the committee should be looking at this, but there is no process by which we can do that.
The chairs of the committees perhaps should take this seriously. If a motion were put by a committee member to the committee to look into and investigate to the best of its ability how a leak occurred, that would be different. But I do not know whether the hon. member was suggesting that chairs of committees are prepared to accept and move on that kind of motion or whether those kinds of motions would simply be voted down by the government side. If what I am hearing is a suggestion that we could do that, then that signal must come from the government side whose members control all the committees. If that is the case, then perhaps these kinds of things will not be brought to the House.
I did not even bring that issue to the House at the time it occurred because I knew how useless it would be. I did not have a name to present in conjunction with that complaint. But I did speak to the reporter and I did, in a very diplomatic way, suggest he had been used by the government to leak a government report prematurely and he admitted that is exactly what happened. But when I asked him who was his contact person, he just threw his hands in the air and laughed. I understand he cannot reveal and he would not reveal his contacts.
The point is if there is a suggestion that the government side of these committees will look into these leaks, I think we will get to the bottom of it. I think we will stop at least the usage of House time in airing these things and having Mr. Speaker make the only decision that you can make when we cannot bring forward a name of a member of parliament responsible for the leak.