Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie for his very pertinent question.
Yes, we want access to the documents, but we do not want to jeopardize national security or the lives of people involved in this matter.
That is why my colleague, who moved the motion, mentioned earlier that Speaker Milliken ruled in 2010 to allow the committee and parliamentarians to have access to certain documents. At that time, the Conservative Party was in power, and we said that we needed to be careful, because if we went as far as was requested, we would have jeopardized the lives of Afghan citizens and of Canadian soldiers involved in that operation.
We want to get to the bottom of this situation without jeopardizing national security and Canadians' lives.