Thank you to the witnesses for attending today.
Mr. Conacher, in response to one of the questions, I was listening to you talk about taking hope from some of the rhetoric that is employed by the government. You thought this was very hopeful, at least, that there is much positive discussion in the air about openness and transparency. I would agree that it is nice to hear these statements, and we heard many very warm and wonderful-sounding statements from the minister when he was here last week. But the problem with this is that if the rhetoric ever later seems to appear to be mere lip service, the hope changes to cynicism, or at least skepticism.
I was particularly taken with Mr. Levant's story of the difficulty in getting the answer to a very simple question, it would seem; a form somewhere that any would-be applicant coming to Canada would have access to; that somebody would, after much argument, be told can't be made available for national security reasons.
Could you comment? I'll perhaps let each of you comment, but I'll start with you, Mr. Levant. What do you think of the credibility of the positive-sounding statements we have, and whether they are going to result in practice, or is this mere lip service?