I really am, I promise.
The final point is the other category of documents that would have been made subject to redactions by the law clerk. Anything that was redacted based on national security or cabinet confidence would properly be redacted because the committee never requested those documents.
The second grouping of categories were things like privacy, personal information. The committee has asked that the law clerk make those redactions. The independent civil service points out in their transmittal letters that certain committee members are trying to exclude from the record, that in fact they have certain obligations that they are required to adhere to, including those under the Privacy Act. They explained the process by which they made decisions as to when and whether they should redact those pieces of information. As far as I can tell, the redactions that would have been made under that heading relate to things like personal information on family members of people who may have been involved in some of the decision-making—personal phone numbers, email addresses—but not the contents of correspondence for people who had no say in this.
At the end of the day, my point on the subamendment is that if we're going to have this go anywhere, the transmittal letters give explicit direction as to what process the government implemented and what factors they considered when they were making those redactions. I think that's relevant to the work of this committee.
Thank you.