If I could just point this out, I think it's an interesting point Mr. Green is raising, but where I might draw a qualitative difference is in the testimony of a departmental civil servant as compared to some of the other witnesses we're going to hear at this committee.
Certainly, external stakeholder groups on whatever side of the political spectrum are going to have views about this legislation, but asking a federal civil servant whose raison d'être is to provide neutral advice at all times to government and not to opine upon legislative reform I think that might be crossing a line.
I think that question would be onside vis-à-vis the Canadian Civil Liberties Association—picking something hypothetically—but not for a federal civil servant.