I appreciate that.
One of the other things we were looking at is this. You were mentioning other jurisdictions. You know that in the U.K. they've set up their own system. They had about 150 cases of alleged reprisals in the first three years, an average of about 50 per year. Granted, it's a larger jurisdiction, I appreciate that, but it leaves me wondering why there's not a single case here. I'm the son of a public servant, I represent public servants, so don't get me wrong; I believe they do good work and that often there are misperceptions.
I want to go back to some cases in the past, because that's how we got here, and cases that are still in front of us. I'm thinking of Ms. Gualtieri and Mr. Chopra and his colleagues. You aren't able to touch those cases, I know, but it is helpful to understand the effect they might have. For the record, just so people know, the government is still fighting both Ms. Gualtieri and Mr. Chopra and his colleagues in court, spending an awful lot of money. I was hoping they would deal with it. That sends a chill, in my opinion, to people who see that people who were responsible, I believe, in many ways...and I think if you talk to Mr. Poilievre and Mr. Baird, they knew of the cases as well, and it was a certain motivation to create your office.
It's strange to me that on the one hand we have your office created, yet we have the government still fighting cases in court against the people who were the motivators to have this office. My question to you is, are you a bit concerned about the chill effect of these latent cases, the cases that are still in front of us, what that does in terms of the message it sends out, because the government's still fighting it; and if so, have you voiced your concern to government?