Mr. Speaker, if I understand correctly, the opposition is willing to cook up a conspiracy and make all these wild accusations because the member, and perhaps other members on that side, have a question they have not received an answer to. I cannot understand how that would be justified. It does not make any sense.
To go back to the member's first point about calling staff before committee, I come from municipal politics and rule number one at city hall was that staff were not dragged into political debates. The politicians are allowed to have the debates on policy, as they relate to the politics, and the staff are allowed to do the work that supports them. As mayor in Kingston, I had no problem, even when an employee made a mistake, standing up and saying, “I take responsibility for that, because they are my employee. You ask the questions of me.”