No. In the context of Mr. Reid's letter, the issue becomes whether or not the documents referenced in that letter fall within the definitions of documents under the Security of Information Act.
I asked Mr. Walsh on behalf of the committee to postulate, for the purposes of his opinion, that if an unexpurgated version of the report were given outside the confines of the department, whether or not the possession of that by someone outside the Department of Foreign Affairs would constitute a document as defined under the Security of Information Act and have certain obvious consequences, including various offences.
I'm not making a request or anything. We've already been told by Mr. Walsh that we can make the request and the department can turn us down. Then we can do a whole number of things, including report to the House in general and ask the House to make some order.
Just so you're clear, I just asked him if the unexpurgated version made its way to someone outside DFAIT whether that in itself would be a document as defined under the Security of Information Act, which would then have certain consequences under that act.
And none of that comes out of your time.