Senator Plett: What is disrespectful, Senator Gold, is that you don’t even attempt to answer a question. I asked you this: How do people get in touch? How do people contact the Special Rapporteur, the person you say is independent? How do people contact him?

Instead, you say we’re being disrespectful. How is it disrespectful to Canadians for them to know how they can contact this Special Rapporteur? If it’s not fake, there should be a way of contacting him.

This is a government that is incapable of making the right decision. Even when the choice is obvious, their lack of leadership and moral compass is shown time and time again as they designate others to make decisions for them. They simply create a new position to avoid the heat and weight of any responsibility.

Here are just a few examples of that: the made-up Special Rapporteur on Foreign Interference; the so-called independent Senate appointment process; consultants, especially their friends at McKinsey; and all the expert advisory groups that cost taxpayers money.

Leader, if this Independent Special Rapporteur weren’t fake, don’t you think there would be more transparency on how to reach his office and that media requests wouldn’t have to be handled through the Prime Minister’s Office? Wouldn’t the leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition have received a response to his letter?