I'm glad you mentioned the Federal Court.
This same document, the Afghanistan 2006 report, has been requested by plaintiffs Amnesty International and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association in their judicial review now before the Federal Court.
Amnesty International and the BCCLA requested that the document be produced in accordance with the rules of the Federal Court. The Attorney General for this government--for the respondents in that matter, who are General Hillier and Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor--objected to the disclosure of the report even to the Federal Court, citing national security exemptions.
That exception to national security--and this will tell you how confident I am in these procedures--I do not believe is a legitimate one. I believe it is simply being employed to withhold from the court this evidence. Where I assume the status of the matter is now--because in fact the judicial proceedings, according to section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act, are secret--