Senator Plett: In fact, leader, yesterday, you said these questions were for our purposes. We can check Hansard on that, leader.

Last month, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, Katie Telford, told a committee of the other place, “. . . nothing is ever kept from the Prime Minister, certainly not by me.”

Yet no one in the Trudeau government can admit they saw an intelligence assessment from CSIS two years ago regarding Beijing’s threat against a member of Parliament and his family.

Again, I have a written question on the Senate Order Paper asking how the Trudeau government handles classified or protected documents. It has remained on the Order Paper, unanswered, since September of 2020 — well over two and a half years.

I would suggest, leader, you have a large enough budget that you could have somebody get us these answers. The reason I haven’t received an answer to my question seems pretty obvious. Does the Trudeau government have a management system for sensitive documents? If so, why can’t it figure out who saw this CSIS report in July of 2021?