Mr. Speaker, this is typical of the Conservative government. The Conservatives knew about the alleged atrocities and they hid it.
Now it has come to light that there are serious allegations about possible torture and atrocities being committed by Afghan authorities, to whom our Canadian military has turned over suspected terrorists, yes, but also other people, and there is the presumption of innocence, which the Conservative government appears to have forgotten about.
The Conservatives literally obfuscated the truth. They change their story every single day.
Here this junior minister sits as the mouthpiece for that Conservative government and that Prime Minister and does not address the issue. The issue is a Minister of National Defence who misled the House repeatedly--