Dans sa réponse du 16 juin à Yvon Godin, M. Shapiro a totalement fait abstraction de la demande expresse d’enquêter sur M. Martin qui, en tant que ministre, fait clairement partie des personnes sur lesquelles le commissaire à l’éthique peut enquêter.
In his reply to Yvon Godin on June 16, Mr. Shapiro completely ignored the specific request to investigate Mr. Martin, who as a minister clearly comes within the ethics commissioner's purview; however, after discussing other matters in the letter, he did say that he did not “believe that there is any need to formally widen the inquiry that I had agreed to undertake in order to ensure that all active participants in the events under scrutiny be considered”, presumably referring to the Prime Minister.