Madam Chairman, that raises another issue. In the case of verbal contracts, this is clearly something that is unacceptable. It is not clear to me at all that we are going to be able to deal with the issue of verbal contracts through an RCMP investigation.
What I am concerned about is that the government has refused a full judicial inquiry into this while on the other hand knowing that an RCMP investigation will not get at issues like verbal contracts. How can the minister have any confidence that an RCMP investigation will expose all these other problems of integrity that have to do with things like verbal contracts or reports that are photocopied and in fact may be within the bounds of the law but obviously are things that do not demonstrate integrity?
How can he be confident that any of these things will ever be exposed if we do not have a proper, full judicial inquiry into his department?