Frank Caputo: “Canadians deserve to know what happened, and Parliament has a responsibility to demand those answers.”

The Criminal Code will soon be updated to allow for a charge of first-degree murder against the killer of an intimate partner, regardless of whether the act was premeditated.

When you ram legislation through over objections, or over considerations, from law professors and civil liberties groups, you have a problem.

Was this an intelligence failure? Yes, it was. Did Canada's international standing suffer because of this? Yes.… How did this happen? We have no answer.

This is not about partisan politics. It is about protecting Canadians, safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining the trust of our NATO allies.