Mr. Chairman, I can understand the member's confusion. It might be difficult.
The subject matter on which someone testifies before a committee is not itself privileged. The testimony given is privileged. All I said a moment ago, or tried to say, was that if the subject matter of Superintendent Paulson's inquiry is the attempt to remove an investigator, that, to me, is an appropriate point of investigation internal with the RCMP. In doing that, they can't rely on what may have been said or not said here. That's the first point. Secondly, they clearly can't investigate whether a witness was telling the truth or not telling the truth in front of this committee. So in that sense, what is said here is beyond their reach.
The subject matter of the testimony, the issue, if you like--whether it was an inappropriate attempt to remove somebody--is a matter of legitimate concern to the institution itself, and they might well want to investigate it and could do so, in my view, but they couldn't rely on testimony here or go after her for apparently giving false testimony here.