Thank you.
Our previous witness spoke very much on the importance of section 9: to take it out of the code and put it into the rule of law that ministers must not attempt to intervene with a judicial body or a semi-judicial body. You were very clear with us the last time on the importance of that rule.
The issue we're seeing here is the arbitrariness of how that rule is applied. We had Minister Flaherty, whom you reprimanded for breaching that rule, and then we had Minister Duncan who resigned recently. Do we need to have a clear set of rules so it's not loosey-goosey? You can't just decide when you're going to apply it and when you're not going to apply it. If the rule is there, it has to be followed.