I am going to be very clear, Ms. Thomsen. I would ask you to try to be both clear and brief.
You are Ms. Sabourin's supervisor. You have discussions in the minister's office and you must definitely talk about the specific issue involved here today—Afghanistan. You say you discuss nothing. So please explain to me why it is that you monitor what Ms. Sabourin says.
When the commissioner appeared before us, he said that the last person authorized to make any suggestions or do anything to have documents blacked out was the minister. The minister has the last word. The fact that the commissioner strikes out sections of a document under subsection 15(1) or some other provision does not change the fact that the last person to read the document is the minister. If there is something else he does not like, he censors it. That is what we were told.
Is that the way things work? No?