Mr. Speaker, while I have a lot of respect for Commissioner Duheme, it appears that the response was actually read by a lawyer in the PMO.
It is very easy to understand. One would think that the Government of Canada should be the complainant because of the fact that $400 million was misappropriated under its watch.
I was not in the RCMP; I was in a municipal police service, a great one. When I did investigations, a complainant turned over documents to the police to investigate. The government is not acting like a complainant in this matter. It is acting like an accused. That is what is really going on here.
The government has reason to be concerned about the evidence being gathered if it is the accused. The fact that it is not turning stuff over—