This morning this committee decided that all witnesses would be sworn in and that they cannot use the defence that there's an ongoing court case and therefore they will not reply. So my question is whether our witness was told that he should have--or was he ever advised that he should have--legal counsel here to counsel him on the legalities of the situation he finds himself right now?
We had a whole slate of witnesses here who were not told anything about the legal consequences of the position in which they find themselves. They've been sworn in by the committee, and there are legal repercussions to what they say in a court of law.