Madam Speaker, I have one small factoid correction. It is true that the Prime Minister of this country has his security clearance, but he got it by right when he became Prime Minister. He never actually had to go through the process that I, or the leader of the New Democratic Party or the leader of the Bloc Québécois, had to go through.
That is a good question, and a very important one. Why did the leader of the official opposition refuse to initiate the process?
The only reason that I can think of is that the Conservative leader is worried he would not get it, because we do not get it by right. I urge the leader of the official opposition to remove the doubt for Canadians that there is something about his history, potentially with foreign interference or something else, which means he worries that he would not get top secret security clearance if he were to ask for it.