Mr. Speaker, some members of this House have suggested that the former attorney general, in her testimony, said that nothing illegal was done. Some members of this House have suggested that the former attorney general said that no law was broken. That is simply not true.
What the former attorney general said in her testimony was this. In response to the question on whether the Criminal Code was broken when she was subject to all that pressure last autumn, the former attorney general said that she believed that the Criminal Code had not been contravened. She did not say that no law had been broken. She did not say that nothing illegal had happened. She made it clear that a constitutional convention had been violated, the Shawcross doctrine, and there is no law higher in this country than the Constitution of this country and the principles that it rests on.