Mr. Speaker, the member's question touches on a number of things. The commitment to a rule of law means it is not up to the judgment of the men and women who are in positions of authority to ultimately decide whether a case is right or it is wrong. That is decided by laws, as they are laid out.
In this place, the government serves the House of Commons, and when a majority of the House of Commons asks for a production order, it is expected to be followed. The member made the point about public trust, that essential element where people look to comply with their democratic institutions because they see it is in the part of the bigger picture, even if in some cases, as he pointed out, this particular company created all sorts of new structures to game the incentives of the market.
What I would simply say is that the government needs to start treating the office it has as a position of trust. It needs to start treating this chamber as royally as it deserves because, if we do not, we lessen this institution and we let it down. We let our constituents down. The government must comply. That is what our Constitution says. Parliament is supreme and can make orders to the government, not the other way around.