Madam Speaker, let me challenge the member across the way, as he asks members of the Liberal caucus to look in the mirror. I will ask him to look at a story in The Hill Times from October 31 written by Steven Chaplin, a former senior legal counsel in the Office of the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel. It is a reflection on the behaviour taking place. It states, “It is time for the House to admit its overreach before the matter inevitably finds its way to the courts which do have the ability to determine and limit the House’s powers, often beyond what the House may like.”
Let there be no doubt that this is a power play by the leader of the Conservative Party, who, I would argue, could be held in contempt because of the methods being used in the chamber, or maybe not him directly but his caucus. At the end of the day, we are being asked to provide unredacted documents directly to the RCMP, which the RCMP, the Auditor General of Canada and others have said is not appropriate. Who is right, the—