I find it interesting that we're talking about a budget of $4.2 million and we see as well law professors throughout universities who are totally independent. They have tenure; they're entitled to comment and do research, as they're required to by their lawful contracts and by their tenure. The law societies provide that independent advice. The bar associations provide that independent advice on a regular basis. For someone to suggest for one moment that the government could go out and get a legal opinion that had no credibility and then try to stand on top of that in terms of defending its case simply doesn't even make legal sense, and it doesn't make political sense.
Working in the Department of Justice provincially and with colleagues right across Canada, I have found there is a high degree of independence among the justice department lawyers, first of all. That's the first thing. You don't tell justice department lawyers what kind of advice they're going to provide.