Madam Speaker, yes, everything I have said in this House I will say outside, and I have been saying it outside in the halls.
As far as the Shawcross doctrine goes, the member for St. Catharines is simply wrong. It does not say that attorneys general are obliged to consult with their cabinet colleagues. It states that attorneys general may consult with their cabinet colleagues in the direction of the attorneys general consulting with their cabinet colleagues, not their cabinet colleagues consulting with them.
However, what we saw was not consultation. At all these meetings, by the way, when the former attorney general said she had made her decision, what new information were the Liberals providing her? What new evidence were they providing her? Nothing. What they were doing was simply threatening her and talking to her about partisan political considerations. She kept saying that it was wrong and she was not going to change her mind. The Prime Minister said, “Fair enough”, and she was fired so he could bring in a new Attorney General to be his lapdog. It is a disgrace.