Mr. Speaker, I do not want to get into a debate with you on the issue at this point, but I would like it if you would hear me out on this matter of the factual answer to the question. I think it is important. I have a suggestion at the end which I think is reasonable.
I was talking about Question No. 91(i) and I will take it up from approximately where I left off. I talked about the response given to parliament and the fact that news reports were alleging behaviour associated with the use of mefloquine by Canadian forces personnel in Somalia as presented by defence counsel in well publicized court martial and the Somalia Inquiry.
The response sounds plausible until we give it a careful reading. Defence counsel did not use mefloquine as a defence in any of the court martial events. The office of the judge advocate general confirmed with my office that mefloquine was not raised by defence counsel.
Further, the Library of Parliament reviewed the coverage of mefloquine and found that in 1994—