Again, I would say to the committee, that has been the position of my clients, quite strongly: that there should be a full judicial public inquiry, where, if the government is going to be paying a former justice or senior lawyer to review these documents, that person should also be asked to draw conclusions from those documents and perhaps ask questions of witnesses.
In terms of use of public dollars, I'd also point out that these same documents, precisely these same documents, in uncensored form, are going to be provided to Mr. Iacobucci, but the government is withholding them from the Military Police Complaints Commission. The Military Police Complaints Commission has been asking for over two years for the uncensored documents so they can review them. Mr. Tinsley, the former chair, wrote to Mr. MacKay on a few occasions asking him to give access to those documents to the commission.
I would just like to remind the committee that the Military Police Complaints Commission is a branch of government. It has top-secret-cleared government lawyers to review those documents, yet for reasons that have never been clear to us, the government has refused to provide those uncensored documents to that body.