Sure.
I remember the details of the SNC-Lavalin affair well, when a previous attorney general made a very clear distinction that there are some significant challenges in being both the client and the solicitor, yet your testimony here today is that the sacrosanct feature is to protect that relationship.
However, the government has a long history of waiving cabinet confidence. How do you defend that, when most—in my understanding—of the legislation that provided you with public interest immunity weighed the balance of the protection of government information with the public interest?
Having spent so much time on this committee, would you not agree that it is within the public interest to provide the most amount and highest level of transparency and accountability to the Canadian public, given the fact that the purpose of us being here is one of the most extreme points of legislation, namely the Emergencies Act, sir? Being both the client and the solicitor, please explain to me and the public how you justify not providing basic information in the general public interest.