Mr. Speaker, we are not looking at police procedure here; this is parliamentary procedure.
What is the precedent for the government not handing over documents that Parliament has asked for? In other words, what is the precedent for the government not doing what Parliament or the power of the people has asked for? That is the real question. We have to take that back to all of our constituents.
This is a historic lesson. We are locked in the longest privilege debate in Parliament's history because of the government's refusal. Other governments have gotten the hint before. Normally they call an election or put the issue to the people, but the government has not. The real question has to be what kind of power we want the people in this House of Commons to have in the future, because right now the precedent is that they would lose all of it.