Are you also familiar with—and you may or may not be, but I'll state for the reference of this committee—that in 1891 a witness before a committee of the Senate of Canada objected to answering questions? The witness gave reasons that he was not in any way obliged to give the committee information relating to these affairs.
The committee had ordered the witness to answer, but he refused. The committee reported his refusal to the Senate, and requested action of the Senate thereon. The report of the committee was adopted by the Senate, and the witness was ordered to attend the bar of the Senate. The witness was ordered by the Senate to answer the questions of the committee. After he agreed to do so, he was discharged from the bar.
There is jurisprudence within our system that these committees are supreme in their ability to investigate these issues. I guess I would like—