Mr. Speaker, I always listen intently to the member's speeches, which I appreciate because he is one of the more erudite members of the House. I also appreciate that he actually has lines of argument in his speeches. Lately, we have been hearing steady streams of nothing but vitriol.
However, related to this question of giving documents to the RCMP, to an outside third party, is the question of whether the legislative branch is getting too close to the law enforcement branch. That, in some ways, is the issue. To look at an analogy, let us say that, at some future date, there were a coalition of parties in the House that said, “We demand to have the tax records of certain individuals”, and that could be for whatever reasons. It could be spite or political retribution. It does not really matter. We know that presidents of the United States, in the past, even going as far back as former president Roosevelt, used the tax system to get to people. How would the member feel about Parliament asking for those kinds of documents so that they could be given to a third party, say the Canadian Taxpayers Federation?