Could you stop the clock, please?
Mr. Edwards, I think this is a perfect example. Members of Parliament, of course, do not work in the public service. They have no way of knowing, really, by way of experience, how a department works, what a chain of command is, what kind of information goes to whom and when. I think the question here is one of frustration, of trying to understand the process of how information flows. So let's take the minister out of it for the moment, because I think we can all agree that what advice is provided to the minister, well, that's advice for the minister.
But I think Madame Lavallée was also inquiring about what information flows to you so that you are aware of what's happening in your department. And of course floating around in all of this is the word “torture” and the allegations of torture, and we have the difficulty of a report apparently being leaked in a non-redacted form. No one, of course, can confirm or deny whether that's the report in its non-redacted form without, of course, commenting on the report. Nonetheless, as Madame Lavallée pointed out, it's in the paper, it hasn't been denied, so there's an air of credibility, an air of believability about it, that there were reports to us—us being Canadians—about torture of people in Afghanistan who, at one time, were under our control.
On a hypothetical basis, so that we can understand, I think Madame Lavallée was asking, what is the flow of that type of information, and does it get to you?