Mr. Chairman, again, we seem to be moving, with all respect to the member, well beyond the discussion of ATIP requests and into the functioning of the department and the providing of advice to the minister.
First of all, to go to your point about confirming or denying, I can neither confirm nor deny what's in that report for the reasons the chair has already explained and I explained in my letter. I'm prepared to appear before the committee and discuss the issues that have to do with ATIP, but the question I've been asked has a lot more to do with what kind of advice I provided to the minister and when it was provided to the minister, based on this report, which I cannot discuss.