Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Prime Minister was not told when he should have known about these developments. That is why there is a foreign policy adviser to him and a deputy secretary for security and intelligence. They are paid to know. They have to know. They need to know so that the interests pertaining to national security are conveyed directly to the Prime Minister on an expeditious basis.
The question for all of us today is, why was this very important information not sent to those individuals and directly to the Prime Minister and left in the hands of one person, namely the defence minister?