Very good. I would like to go back to the questions.
As I say, Mr. Howlett, I'm not asking you these questions to be malicious in any way, but when you make statements to members of Parliament, when you make statements that are going to be on the national news, and when you make statements contradicting what the Prime Minister of Canada himself has said, I would expect that you would provide evidence for that.
I certainly wouldn't be able to get a search warrant without providing evidence that these things were said, so I would ask you once again, sir—although it appears that you don't have the names with you—to divulge these informants' names. You can submit that to the committee at your leisure, in a timely fashion, but I want to make it very clear that when it comes to this committee, we really do want to base our decisions on fact.
I have had conversations with all members of this committee about this tax convention, which is what we're supposed to be discussing today, and we all seem to be in agreement that it is a move forward. But to use the tax convention discussion to bring up the G-8 and to speculate based on absolutely no evidence, I think is unfortunate.
I think Canadians needed to hear that you're really basing your information on journalists who, quite frankly, sometimes get it wrong. You would agree with that, would you not?