Mr. Speaker, three years ago, Justice O'Connor made recommendations on the critical need for independent oversight of the RCMP in the wake of the Arar affair.
The government ignored these recommendations, even after being echoed by the RCMP Public Complaints Commissioner, the Senate anti-terrorism committee and in the RCMP pension scandal.
In committee yesterday, a Conservative MP broke a year of silence by calling those responsible for oversight “paper pushers”. After three years of inaction, after doing nothing, perhaps we finally have a reason why.
Are those charged with the oversight of our intelligence activities just paper pushers to the government?