Mr. Speaker, I hear my colleagues heckling and saying “not true”. However, I will read an excerpt from an actual letter from the commissioner; he said, “Any information obtained through the Motion or other compulsory authorities would need to be segregated from an RCMP investigation. There is a significant risk that the Motion could be interpreted as a circumvention of normal investigative processes and Charter protections.”
The RCMP wrote the House a letter and said it does not want the information through the manner in which we would be trying to give it to the RCMP. The RCMP said it has the ability to get the information when and how it wants it. I have a simple question for the member. I am sure he can provide me a simple, common-sense answer to it.
Why is he so insistent on this method of handing over information when the authority he wants to give it to is telling us not to give it like this?