Thank you very much for that question.
This is another area, I regret to say, of abuse by Global Affairs, the abuse of the term “commercial confidentiality”. The OECD actually has a definition of commercial confidentiality and it is really narrowly construed to relate to factors to do with pricing and competitiveness of bids. Therefore, that should certainly not prevent the lion's share of the information being given to parliamentarians and to the public for that matter. That was used, of course, with Saudi Arabia. We weren't allowed to know anything. It wasn't just that it was commercial confidentiality, allegedly it was a term of the agreement.
One thing I want to note right now though that doesn't get enough attention is that, in the report lifting the export suspension, the latest report, the April 2020 report on Saudi Arabia, the minister had one good thing to say and that was that the renegotiated contract with Saudi Arabia removed the penalty. The word is “eliminated”. It eliminated the penalty if the export breaches the authorized use of the authorized end-user.
It also said that much more information could be given about the contract, so all in all you should be able to get a lot more information.