Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough for his well-chosen question.
I must admit that it did not strike me as pertinent to ask such a thing, since I felt, naively perhaps, that our colleagues on the government side would do what has to be done under the circumstances, that is to show judgment, impartiality, objectivity, conscientiousness. That is perhaps asking too much of them.
In fact, in the public interest and with a concern for transparency, a concern for justice, a concern for respect, or quite simply just to avoid even the slightest suspicion that there could have been any manipulation, or misdirection of the investigation, I think that the government would indeed be wise, without waiting to be asked, to comply with the wise suggestion from the hon. member for Pictou—Antigonish—Guysborough. It would be showing its true desire to get to the bottom of things, rather than trying to make use of the procedure and House affairs committee merely to stifle the problem.