Thank you very much. I appreciate your candour.
You appeared before the legislative committee many years ago—34 years ago, to be exact—and you said the following:
To decide about invoking exceptional measures, judgements have to be made about what the government is capable of doing without exceptional powers, and on whether these capabilities are likely to be effective and sufficient.
Thus the decision to declare an emergency is an exercise of political judgement and the Parliament of Canada is obviously an appropriate forum for questioning that judgement.
Based on your opening comments, I believe you still stand by those words, so would it be right for me to assume that parliamentary committees, this particular committee, would be the natural and right place for that to occur?