Madam Speaker, to my hon. friend from Calgary Forest Lawn, it is very important to not only get a security briefing but to understand the nature of the obligations of Canada, our intelligence gathering and security experts and the relationship they must have with our Five Eyes partners. As much I believe he sincerely thinks releasing names would be an easy thing to do, to do so might jeopardize what are referred to as intelligence assets. They are human beings, but as CSIS has explained to me, they have been referred to by CSIS as intelligence assets, whose lives could be at risk if we were to be reckless.
I want to put to the hon. member that there was a more dangerous time in 1985: the biggest single terrorist attack on Canadian soil, with the Air India bombing. I would no more decide to politicize that and say that somehow the Prime Minister of the day, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, was responsible for that. I think we know, from the Air India inquiry, there were systemic problems. The RCMP had bits of information and CSIS had bits of information. They did not work together well.
It is critical that in a debate like this, on an emergency motion of threats to Canadians on Canadian soil from a foreign government, we stop trying to politicize it and blame one party or one party's leader, but work together to show foreign governments that we can work together. On that basis, I want the official opposition leader to get his security briefing.