Madam Speaker, I appreciate the comments of my colleague from Saint-Jean. The member and his party have supported our call for a public inquiry and the resignation of the minister, neither of which the government has agreed to yet.
Therefore, the committee work that is going on right now seems to be the only method, and it should go forward. This motion will help with that.
One thing that has come out in the committee from David Mulroney, the most senior diplomat involved, is that he said very clearly that in May 2007 or thereafter, we started to develop a database of people whom we had detained.
That is the closest the government has come to admitting that prior to then, it really did not keep very good track of whom it was detaining and what was happening to them.
Does that piece of information give rise to a greater need for us to know exactly what was known prior to that time by the government?