Thank you for that.
I think there's kind of dual function for this committee. One is to condemn the misrepresentation--what we believe is the deliberate misrepresentation by the minister--but the second is to come to the defence of the senior public servants who did their job, etc.
You point out in one of the paragraphs that you were unable to read into the record that we do not have a good mechanism for dealing with this sort of dilemma in Canada. In Britain, the secretary to the cabinet has been known to take ministers to task when they lie about the advice they've been given or otherwise betray the trust and honour of the public service. Can you expand on that a little?