If I may, Madam Freeman, Mr. Walsh was a witness for us two meetings ago. We only had him for the last five minutes because we seemed to go a little longer on the first item. I guess we didn't want to hear what he had to say then. But he was asked to come, and I think if you go back to the steering committee discussion and to the meeting we had subsequently, the whole reason for having Mr. Walsh had to do with contempt of Parliament issues, which I raised because of the Mulroney-Schreiber hearings, because of the subsequent evidence that came out, disclosed by The Fifth Estate and provided to me by Mr. Schreiber himself. This evidence showed, if the evidence was valid and real, that Mr. Fred Doucet, the subsequent president of GCI, Marc Lalonde, and I think one other person had lied to the committee during their testimony before the committee.
I asked if we could have Mr. Walsh to determine whether or not we could bring that forward and whether the timing and all other good things, and how do we do this...simply because I wasn't sure. I did not ever mention that we should have Mr. Walsh to advise us on our mandate. And I can tell you that, in my opinion, he would not give us an opinion on whether this matter was within our mandate because he knows what the Speaker ruled already, that--