Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has a pretty short memory, or perhaps we should say a selective memory.
He might recall that during the period the Krever commission was carrying on it was the government that attempted to stonewall that commission. It particularly endeavoured to prevent that commission from getting cabinet documents that might have implicated Liberal cabinet ministers.
The period Krever was talking about, 1981 when the test was available, was when there was a Liberal government in power. I suggest the official opposition has pressed this point during the Krever inquiry. It was the government that resisted our inquiries.
In our view the government has not done the right thing in response to the member's question and no amount of apologizing after the fact, no amount of legal gobbledegook from either the minister or other members, no amount of spinning the story, no amount of trying to now appear to be on the side of the premiers when the government a week ago was castigating them in this very House as being opportunistic, callous and cynical; no amount of that type of thing will remove from the government's record the fact that it acted in this case not with compassion and not with justice but it acted in precisely the opposite fashion.