Mr. Speaker, let us take it out of the highly charged, accusatory place called question period. Let us look at what impartial senior public servants had to say. Paul Chapin said, “I think what set me back is how serious the allegations are and how flimsy the evidence was”. This is a colleague of the individual in question.
Senior Ambassador David Mulroney said:
This is where I think he went from an observation to speculation.
Mr. Chapin went on to say, “To summarize, persons were not qualified to make certain assessments. It was irresponsible to make a charge without hard evidence”.
We act on hard evidence. We act on allegations that can be proven. We made changes and improved it. We continue to do so.