To deal with your questions in sequence, in terms of the passage that you just read from Mr. Walsh's letter, I think there's an important distinction between someone who appears before this committee and is a potential witness in a subsequent proceeding and someone like Mr. Beardall and me who appear before this committee but in fact are almost certainly not going to be witnesses should there ever be a subsequent criminal proceeding.
Our claim of privilege is based on entirely different considerations. There's a public interest involved in the protection of ongoing investigations, and we have an ethical and moral obligation to uphold that. We are also bound by the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to respect the solicitor-client privilege that attaches to our advice. So while I do understand Mr. Walsh's letter, our issues are different.