Okay, so what we're talking about is a competing understanding.
Parliament and parliamentary committees understand that they can ask for documents. I think we would all understand why cabinet confidences need to be redacted and perhaps some personal information, and there are perhaps times that attorney-client privilege would also need to be redacted. However, I think the committee then would, in its discretion, make that determination in association with the department that was making that claim.
In this case, it sounds like, irrespective of the advice of parliamentary counsel, somebody has taken a position that the government has a blanket right to redact these criteria.
Let me ask this: Did a Speaker of the House of Commons ever agree with this policy?