Mr. Speaker, the member is absolutely correct. I heard Conservatives say today that when there is a problem, we call in the police. Yes, of course we call in the police, but we let the police do their own work. I ask the former prosecutors who are sitting in the House right now whether it is the job of the public to do the work for the police. Is it the job of the House to do the work for the RCMP? No, of course it is not.
The RCMP has the tools necessary to get the information it wants. When and if the RCMP decides it wants that information, it will know how to get it. The RCMP does not need the House to somehow inform it how to get evidence or what evidence it should be getting. What the Conservatives need to do is listen to the RCMP, to the Speaker's ruling and to just about every expert on this who has said that there is a constitutional way to do this that involves the RCMP's actually doing its work. We do not need to step outside the Constitution for the RCMP to be effective at what it is doing.