Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm getting straight to my point.
I want to give the minister the benefit of the doubt. I would like to think that, when he called for the removal of proposed section 4.1, which forms the basis of Mr. Housefather's motion, he did not, in good conscience, want to attack freedom of expression. I really want to believe that. Yet, if he were sincere, why would he refuse to allow the Minister of Justice to provide a new legal opinion?
That was my point. Maybe he wasn't acting in bad faith. Perhaps he made a mistake during his interview or he didn't take the time to read his notes in order to explain why section 4.1 was originally proposed and then removed. He didn't want to admit his mistake. However, as the saying goes, a fault confessed is half redressed. We could have—