Ministers, I thank you both for having agreed to appear before us at the beginning of this exercise that has been undertaken by our subcommittee, and also for having acquainted yourselves with the presentations that had been made previously.
You have already answered the first question that I wanted to put to you. Mr. Wappel has asked that question. I know that in your view, even though Parliament acted in a state of emergency, in haste, because of the circumstances, it has produced a practically perfect legislation requiring few improvements. It seems that this was not the view held by the Parliament that passed the legislation.
Could I suggest a few improvements? Don't you believe that in hearings where the judge receives some ex parte evidence, it would be beneficial, in order to respect our general legal principles, to have what is called an amicus curiae, or a friend of the court, that is a lawyer whose security clearance is the highest possible and who could cross-examine the witnesses in order to better inform the judge who must make a decision?