Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments of my colleague from the Progressive Conservative Party. I am glad to hear him talk about using committees. Since I have been here the department has deliberately abused the committees.
There is one thing that bothers me with the federal and provincial governments and it is part of the nineties. It appears that it is actually deliberate that provincial and federal governments stage information leaks. In doing so the governments are able to get a course in public opinion for much cheaper. That is an abuse of committees. It really makes committees look like tools of the government that are not able to fulfil their original purpose.