Mr. Speaker, earlier, in reply to a question concerning the Privy Council, the Deputy Prime Minister told us that he did not know if the clerk had been informed of the fact that we had taken prisoners in Afghanistan.
How can he justify that, in a government involved in an international crisis, whose Minister of National Defence is in the hot seat, and whose Prime Minister seemingly made two erroneous statements because he was not given the appropriate information, no one checked with the Clerk of the Privy Council to find out when the information had reached Privy Council?
He wants to tell us that no one—