Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister informed the House that the Minister of National Defence told him about JTF2 taking prisoners a full eight days after the incident occurred. Yet Britain's elite service, the SAS, has a dual reporting system to ensure that the cabinet is informed at the same time as the minister of defence. The Australian system is the same.
Why is Canada the odd man out? Why does Canada rely solely on the discretion of the minister of defence to determine whether or not information is important enough to be passed on to the Prime Minister?