Mr. Speaker, I do not think that answer will wash with the public.
The public wants to know that the public inquiry is dealing with this. What we do not want is the Treasury Board president and the Prime Minister hanging out Chrétien loyalists to dry while covering his own tracks and the tracks of all those people involved in his party and supporting him.
Why is it that we are investigating Chrétien loyalists, but people such as the former president of the Treasury Board and his current communications director get to sit around the cabinet table and continue to talk about this?