Mr. Speaker, at last week's public accounts hearing into the RCMP pension scandal, I asked the acting commissioner how any investigator deprived of the power to subpoena witnesses could give a fulsome report if they had not been able to meet with both sides of any issue. The commissioner said, “it would be difficult to assure yourself you had the whole case, if people didn't cooperate”.
We already know somebody is lying. How can the minister claim that an informal backroom investigation, without subpoena powers, could possibly get to the truth?