SECU Committee Report
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Bloc Québécois Supplementary Opinion An obsession with secrecy The report The Bloc Québécois fully supports this report which highlights the government’s obsessive secrecy and its capacity to manipulate the truth to achieve its own ends. In the case in question, one of its goals was to discredit the political community and specific ethnocultural groups. However, we believe the report should have been more specific on page 4 regarding the questions to which the Committee has not received detailed answers or any response. We feel that the report as it stands could be misleading because it causes readers to believe that the three questions presented are the only ones that have not been answered satisfactorily. However, at least one question has been omitted and it is important, as a positive response could mean that a witness lied to the Committee. Specifically, on 5 July 2010, Ms. Mourani asked Mr. Fadden the following: I am simply asking whether you filed any warrant applications with the Federal Court in order to investigate these people [agents of influence]. She then added: Mr. Fadden, as soon as your report has been completed, if we find out that you filed applications with the Federal Court, that would mean you made specific requests to the minister to file an application with the Federal Court, which would also mean that the cases in question were already known to the minister, and that you are lying to us right now. In light of the above, the Bloc Québécois will closely monitor the tabling of Mr. Fadden’s report and take any necessary action. |