Mr. Speaker, what the new member for Kingston and the Islands fails to appreciate is that any order of Parliament is supreme. It is the law. The member and his government are actually the complainants.
If there were really an interest in holding these individuals, who forfeited the ability to receive funds lawfully but did so through criminal means, then he would actually understand that there is an obligation to work with the RCMP and hand over the documents. Government members are not doing so, because they are clearly trying to protect someone on or behind that front bench. That is the only logical conclusion. They have the ability.
Just because it has never been done before, it does not mean that there is no lawful way to release the documents.