Mr. Chair, the last question I have is about the individual case that was heard here at committee.
Mr. Esau's case scenario--I have the documents here, and he's waived his right to privacy to share these e-mails--paint a picture of.... There's remediation needed here, and certainly, I would suggest, there's a need for a change in guidelines when you have this situation where he's asked for human rights reports and he gets back that they don't have reports on human rights. As I said before, there's this kind of “guess what I'm thinking” game going on, when in fact, as he establishes, we know that DFAIT would have reports on human rights in the Afghanistan file. He was told that they don't write formal reports. So it's a game of nomenclature as opposed to substance.
I guess the frustration, from my end, in terms of the policy is that there seems to be this disconnect, and I go back to it. It seems to be more concerned about embarrassment than about divulging.
Are you aware of his case, and are you concerned that he is being blocked in the access to information that all citizens should have? That's in terms of a policy, not you individually, because that's not your job, I understand.