Mr. Speaker, on Friday at the APEC hearing in Vancouver, Commissioner Hughes invited the Prime Minister to appear to give testimony. Without the Prime Minister's testimony there will be a cloud of suspicion in the mind of the public that will taint the findings of the commission.
To this point the commission has spent between $3 million and $4 million. Canadians understandably are asking why. The answer is the public complaints commission was chosen by the PM's office as a vehicle to bury the Prime Minister's complicity in denying Canadians freedom of expression.
The Prime Minister does not understand the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy. In a dictatorship the executive directs the enforcers. In a democracy there is a firewall separating the executive from the enforcers.
This issue is about the freedoms that we cherish in this great nation of Canada. The Prime Minister fails to understand this fundamental concept. Will the Prime Minister attend the public complaints commission and be answerable to Canadians?