—that talks about splitting protection of cabinet confidences. My understanding is that this talks about the role of cabinet confidences, where you draw the line when somebody's giving you advice, and where it can and can't be released.
Basically, this report, under the Liberal administration, supports what's in front of us here, in terms of the operation of the government and advice to the minister—or it doesn't have to be to the minister. Again, I would let you know that it could be advice to other departments. I'm not sure if it covers crown corporations, so I'm not sure if it applies to advice to the Canada Post Corporation, for example, to Ms. Greene or someone such as her. They are separate from the operations of good government, but this would be something that as a committee, when we're looking at the access to information piece, we could explore.
There's another report, which I mentioned in another section, that also applies here, Strong Medicine for Delays. It's important in this case, and in all cases, that the advice ministers get is provided in a timely manner, because they're often making decisions that need to be made fairly quickly, and so on.
In the Afghanistan 2006: Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights report, which is referenced in this motion, we're not sure what it would have done in terms of the delay on any decisions that had to be made, particularly based on the advice that was given. Again, the title indicates that it may have been a review of what happened in 2006, but I'm pretty sure it would also give advice on what should happen in 2007, and further on.
So any delay in that could have been very damaging to the country, to our military people, and to our humanitarian folks on the ground in Afghanistan, who are doing great work for us.
I would encourage members of the committee to look at that report to see why it's important to this section, and it's important that we wait until we hear from the commissioner on this particular item before we proceed.
These are the kinds of things....
Oh, Sukh, you're leaving us. I'm sorry.