If that's the case, I'm going to go to the other question on which I should probably comment here.
Mr. Attaran, you are on record as saying this government has been very slow to react to any concerns about Afghanistan detainees. You said it took nearly one year to correct Mr. O'Connor's falsehood that the International Committee of Red Cross, the ICRC, was monitoring the treatment of Canada's detainees while they were in Afghanistan's custody. You have made it clear for Canadians—and I appreciate your work on this—that the ICRC normally keeps the results of its inspections confidential, except for sharing them with the detaining power. In this case, that would be Afghanistan.
We also know the ICRC has a long history of questionable decisions about confidentiality. It did not even publicly denounce the various abuses of Nazi concentration camps, and it did not denounce the use of torture in Guantanamo Bay until these crimes against the Geneva Convention became known through other avenues. You would expect other avenues to include our very own government.
I wonder if you would tell us if you have tried to have a dialogue with the government and about your difficulties, and how cooperative you have found Minister McKay and his department.