That's useful for us to know, but it's also of great concern. If you're trying to garner the public's support for a policy, why do you wrap it in a shroud of secrecy? If your plan of action has merit, one would think you would want to tell people about it to garner their support and pitch it to them that you're governing well. It strikes me as contrary. There's nothing to be gained by wrapping what you're planning to do in a shroud of secrecy.
I think we've exposed a real problem here that's becoming a hallmark, not just in this area but in terms of denying the public's right to know, in access to information that is not a matter of national security. For some reason their default position is secrecy instead of open government. It seems to me we're going completely in the wrong direction in that regard. But we will support you as much as we can in your efforts to help us understand more about what the government's estimates are.
Thank you.