With all due respect, I think it's very important to have this on the record. We in the official opposition take the rights of the witness very seriously. This is not meant to be a kangaroo court. There were many concerns about why taxpayers paid money for that trip. We had asked for answers. We had asked for the report.
If the report had supplied the kind of information on meetings or perhaps on costings or other things that would have been shared with the various ports in Australia and the Port of Montreal, that would be an issue of confidentiality we would be bound to respect.
I'm very concerned that someone has presented this report and then after the fact has claimed confidentiality. There's nothing on that report that even says confidential. There's nothing in that report other than something one could hire an intern or ask an intern to find on Google and Flickr. It seems to me we're being asked to use confidentiality perhaps to be almost like a cover-up.
I think that's not the role of our committee. I think the public should be able to see it, and the public should be able to make up their minds. I think it's our job to release that report.