Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would agree with your statement that video conferencing certainly would give a venue to have certain questions answered. But really, even if he was to appear here, could you answer all the questions that seem to have risen on this? A lot of the questions go well back into his past, apparently. Did he come to Canada as a refugee? My understanding is that he possibly did, and if he did, he's been back in Sudan several times since.
I can respect your comments, Mr. Walsh, and thank you very much, but you commented that it's inappropriate to make comments on the submissions by this gentleman because it's before the courts right now, and that's an additional complication that we have here too. We can follow this back through too. We don't know what is in his background, and I don't think we would find that out by speaking to him directly. That will come out through the basis of what other court actions are under way, and maybe even then some of the allegations that have been made under the Anti-Terrorism Act, or whatever act they're under, or the no-fly, never will be able to come out.
So in order to be able to simply listen to him, if the action is to bring him back to Canada, I don't think this is the appropriate thing to be doing at this time. I think the appropriate thing to be doing at this time is deciding whether or not we would have a discussion with him by video conference. But I really don't see how we're going to be able to get to the bottom of all of the questions we might have, even on a video conference.