Mr. Wallace and Ms. Tessaro, in case there's any possible sense that there's any doubt about our confidence in the legal profession, may I just quote Neil Young and say “long may you run”.
We've talked about the mandate here and Mr. Donnelly was referring to past inquiries and commissions. He said something about do we have any reason to believe that under Minister Shea things will be different from previous ministers. As someone who called for an inquiry based on what people in my riding wanted, and there were several round tables in my riding and people came to the conclusion we needed an inquiry, I had the honour to ask the Prime Minister in the House of Commons what was he going to do, and he responded with the announcement of this very commission.
I'm intrigued by your sense of this power to subpoena. Is it not true that the power of subpoena means that you'll be able to bring department officials before you who may say things that are embarrassing to the department or not? Is it not a courageous thing to arm the inquiry with such sweeping powers of subpoena, and doesn't it enable you to do things that might not have been anticipated otherwise?