But we have an Information Commissioner who adjudicates what information should be made public and what information shouldn't. She can't rule on information that's been destroyed. I don't see anywhere, even in excluded situations, or exempted situations, the right to destroy information. I don't see how it could be allowed.
Now let me focus on one thing you said. All through your departmental report, and even in your introductory documents, you make reference to the non-partisan nature of the PCO. I have never questioned or challenged that until Sunday night, at about 9:30 p.m.
Why was this information that the e-mails have been found released at 9:30 on a Sunday night instead of waiting till 8 a.m. the following morning? How can we see that as anything but partisan, in that it would be in the best interests of the Prime Minister for that information to be released while he's singing a song on stage at a fundraiser? Can you explain to me how we can believe that it's non-partisan when it's so clearly advantageous to the government that this information was rationed out to the public in such a bizarre timeline. In the process of answering, could you tell me, when did you find those e-mails exactly?