Your asking us, to some extent, to prejudge what the commission is going to produce. I'm not going to go there.
I can tell you that there are a number of things in reference to the commission that, if Commissioner Major is able to deliver on, will be of assistance to this government and this bureaucracy now.
As a case in point, the government is asking Commissioner Major to help us with how, in a court of law, we transfer what is intelligence into evidence. I can tell you that when I was in the Department of Justice five or six years ago, we were very much concerned about this, and we did not know how to do this. We have now a former Supreme Court of Canada justice who is going to be spending some time trying to give us some elements as to how we're going to be able to come up with a scheme that is workable.
He will perhaps be able to tell us how we turn a mega-trial into something that is more manageable. If he's able to come up with things of that nature, it will be worth every penny that is being spent on this. On top of that, I think this provides a forum for people who feel they have not received the kind of attention that the government should have given them, and it provides that forum so that Canadian people as a whole will be able to come to some understanding of what ought to have been done in 1985 and before, and therefore what we should be doing in the future to prevent something like this from happening.
I said I was not going to answer questions of the nature of why we are doing this. I guess I have crossed that line a little bit, but I happen to think that the government is doing something that is going to be worthwhile.