Mr. Speaker, the government refuses to answer the most basic questions about these issues even when Canadian lives are at stake.
Today we learned that there are new reports of a government-wide ban on transparency, ordered by the Prime Minister's Office. Officials talk about it, and call it unprecedented, draconian and Orwellian. The Prime Minister's obsession with secrecy means that Canadians have to read in American newspapers about what Canadian troops are doing in Afghanistan.
Why this Conservative culture of deceit?