Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is directed to Rob Walsh and to the Department of Justice.
Rob, in the exchanges that you saw here, there were a lot of privileges talked about--I have a privilege, they have a privilege. Mr. Bachand was talking about opening up everything. I want specifically to understand this from you: we have all taken the secrecy oath not to divulge sensitive information and everything under the secrecy oath and the public service oath. Can you confirm this, that the committee has the right to actually break this law, the laws of Canada, and that we would be compelled to do that? If so, if we are going to be compelled to do that, how are we going to protect ourselves from this thing so that we do not lose our privileges or break the law of Canada? Can you make this thing a very clear distinction?
I'll go to the justice guy for the second one, which is, can this scheme of the Canada Evidence Act be used to cover up information that is embarrassing to the government?
I ask those two questions here.