Thank you, Madam Chair.
I was entertained by the last round of questioning from my good friend, Mr. Butt, who said that he was offended by the fact that taxpayers' money is being wasted, challenging the Information Commissioner. Yet I believe it was the Conservative government that took the Information Commissioner all the way up to the Supreme Court to protect the political rear ends of ministers so that they didn't have to release any documents. They were certainly willing to waste money then.
The Conservative government, and I find it particularly offensive, didn't get the court rulings they wanted on the in and out scandal, and they're going to go all the way, spending as much money as they can to cover themselves off. There's certainly a political war being waged here.
I want to follow up on the mistaken impressions Mr. Butt has had about what is actually going on in the court case. We had Mr. von Finckenstein here just recently, former Federal Court judge, head of the CRTC, who said that he thought it seemed fairly straightforward that you would go to court to clarify what 68.1 meant. We see that the Conservatives jumped all over this before we had a court hearing, so we're wasting taxpayers' money right here. It would seem that once we have clarification, we will know whether CBC is in the right or in the wrong, and we can take steps from there.
Mr. Laurin, do you think it's a reasonable thing to go to court to get clarification?