Without getting into too much detail, I would simply want to say that if one says the cabinet confidence should be opened, why shouldn't it also occur with respect to ordinary members of Parliament? Is it analogous? I'm not prepared to say that it's absolutely analogous, because there are differences between members of Parliament and specifically the executive or cabinet. But I don't think you would hesitate to say that if someone suggested that information you received in the course of making political or other decisions...it would compromise your ability to hear from people and come to those kinds of conclusions. I think you would agree.
If we agree that in the context of your making decisions on behalf of your constituents you would have to divulge sources or other types of personal information, then we have the same problem, perhaps magnified, at the cabinet level, when we start talking about that kind of disclosure of information. So I think it illustrates the problem, which you feel at a personal level, regarding what could happen at the cabinet level.
I have no problem, and I've been involved as a lawyer with those types of arguments about cabinet confidentiality. Lawyers on the other side of the case have said, well, those aren't really confidences. Those materials were all placed into envelopes, given to the judge, and the judge was the only one who saw them. I don't mind that kind of review.
I do have a problem with someone saying, demonstrate to us how this is going to be injurious, and if you can't, release the information. I simply don't know how you do it.