Mr. Speaker, it is quite the contrary. Counsel to the commission has access to the information. Counsel to the commission has never expressed any problem with the availability of the information that has been requested. It is that simple.
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Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, it is quite the contrary. Counsel to the commission has access to the information. Counsel to the commission has never expressed any problem with the availability of the information that has been requested. It is that simple.
Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, counsel to the commission has been provided all the documents that have been requested.
Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I have said many times, in 1988 this place, parliament, decided how we would choose in this country to deal with complaints by Canadian citizens against the RCMP. Once that process is commenced by a complainant it is the master of its own procedure.
Anything that we might do to affect that outcome would be completely inappropriate. It would be inexcusable and we will not do it.
Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I said, the Public Complaints Commission is the master of its own procedure.
Allegations were made. The public complaints commission is the appropriate organization or agency in which to take action. They did and it referred the matter to the federal court and that is where we stand.
Apec Inquiry October 26th, 1998
Mr. Speaker, what this means is that there is a process in place, the Public Complaints Commission.
That process was designed by parliament in 1988 to deal with matters such as this incident and that is exactly what it is doing.
Apec Inquiry October 22nd, 1998
Mr. Speaker, I rely on the public complaints commission and its counsel for their judgment as to whether they are getting access to all the information they need.
To this point there has been absolutely no complaint.
Apec Inquiry October 22nd, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I said many times, the counsel to the commission has expressed no problem with the availability of information. The government has been very forthright. In fact, there has been a remarkable collection of information made available.
The counsel to the commission and the commission are doing their job and the hon. member should allow them to continue.
Apec Inquiry October 22nd, 1998
Mr. Speaker, the government's position on this is very clear. This is an important investigation. The public complaints commission is the agency to look into this and to get to the truth. That is exactly what it should be allowed to do.
Apec Inquiry October 22nd, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I said, the government is co-operating completely. The counsel for the commission confirms that.
Apec Inquiry October 22nd, 1998
Mr. Speaker, as I said, this is the subject of an independent inquiry. The person to whom that question should be addressed is the counsel for the commission who is holding that inquiry.