Madam Speaker, it is interesting to listen to my colleague from the Bloc defend Liberal corruption. To answer his question on Afghan detainees, because I was here during that time, the government does have the power to limit access on things that affect national security and national defence. SDTC has nothing at all to do with anything other than Liberal embarrassment. With respect to the Afghan detainee issue, we did put in place a process that allowed members to actually look at the secret documents and report back if they saw anything that fulfilled any of the allegations that were being made by other parties.
Stéphane Dion and Laurie Hawn spent months going through thousands and thousands of pages of classified, top-secret documents on the activity of the Canadian Armed Forces as it related to Afghan detainees, and they came back with a nil report. There was no evidence other than allegations that were made through partisan interests.
I would also say that the rules are clear on this in Bosc and Gagnon; the House, as well as the Speaker, will recognize when there is information that could hurt the overall national security of the country.
I would say that the argument being brought forward from my friend in the Bloc does not hold water.