Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Wernick, thank you for being here today on something that I really question, which is, given that you left government five years ago, what you can add to a police investigation, quite frankly.
I served as parliamentary secretary at public safety for a few years. I also served on the public safety committee for eight years. One thing that always struck me was the importance of the separation of the political arm from police investigations. We look at countries around the world where politicians dictate what police do. We don't want to emulate those countries, yet we are constantly hearing from the opposition and also on social media that somehow we as politicians should be telling police what they should and should not investigate, and who they should talk to.
Would you feel comfortable talking in general terms about the importance of that separation—that police investigations are independent of the political arm of the government?