I don't want to put you in an unfair position at all. What we're trying to understand is that the Canadian government wants to sell something and they have a purchaser in mind, so they are making the sale and enabling the sale through this budget implementation act. So to Mr. Keddy's point before the break in terms of inappropriate uses of budget implementation acts, one may argue that selling off assets and making all the stipulations possible through an omnibus bill would be incongruous with accountability.
What we're trying to offer here is simple transparency, Chair, through you to the other committee members, to say if there are any conditions of this sale on jobs, on any investment, things that have been agreed to between the Canadian government and the purchaser, that those conditions be made public, period. That's all it does. Certainly if there are conditions that the purchaser is willing to adhere to in confidence they would be ones they would be willing to have exposed in public.
The angling of the question I had for you, Mr. Halverson, was to understand if there is any sort of.... I understand the legal requirements as it's written, but there’s nothing preventing the government from agreeing with this and making it a condition of the sale that any conditions and requirements would be made public. I don’t know why the government wouldn't, in the spirit of transparency and accountability, make all that information and those conditions public because the public owns the asset.