Okay.
Because under the guidelines for the Privy Council officials—and I think your people beside you have read it—I quote, “Officials may give explanations in response to questions having to do with complex policy matters, but they do not defend policy or engage in debate.... In other matters, principally those having to do with the administration of the department and its programs” must be strictly limited. "Matters of policy and political controversy have been reserved...exclusively for Ministers, principally because political answerability on the part of officials would inevitably draw them into controversy, destroy their” political “utility to the system and, indeed, undermine the authority and responsibility of their Ministers.”
My concern is that Mr. Wernick, using a committee hearing to advance all manner of personal political conjectures—number one about how ethical the Prime Minister is; number two, how amazing Ms. Bennett was; number three, how terrible it was that people criticized her on Twitter—used his position to advance an agenda, which is destroying his utility as someone we can all look to and say, “You know what? In a matter of real political tension, we can trust him.”
Do you not see that?