I don't disagree. I wouldn't be surprised if we do come to that similar conclusion.
Some of the Conservative Party briefing notes must be very widespread, because I've heard a similar motif from virtually all the speakers at the Bill C-2 committee in dealing with some of the access to information clauses, one of which was CBC. They keep coming back to the fact that if we remove the mandatory exclusion, journalists are going to have to divulge their sources. That gets stated over and over again. Now the minister used the same argument today.
Can you assure people that journalistic sources would not be at risk if you made the exclusion a discretionary one, that there's a way for CBC to be covered by access to information that doesn't threaten the integrity of the privilege that exists with journalistic sources?