Mr. Speaker, I think that is a great question to ask the Liberal government, which the NDP has been in partnership with for the last nine years. The New Democrats could have spoken to the Liberals, but they failed to do that. They failed to raise this when the NDP was in a coalition with the government. It is ironic that the NDP members are talking about a security clearance when their own former NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has said that he would not have gotten a security clearance because it would gag the leader of the Conservative Party on the issues and holding the government to account.
The leader has been briefed. On October 14, he was briefed by the national security adviser to the Prime Minister. He received a confidential briefing on the matter, so the disinformation coming from both the NDP and the Liberals is quite concerning.