Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you, honourable member.
You're very right. When it comes to security, there's open source, there are soft sources and then there's specific intelligence. Materials related to things around a level 4 lab are of interest to many parties.
In my experience over the past several weeks, where we have provided materials, those have immediately been made public by the Commons committee reviewing the matter. The cumulative effect of making these materials available does, in and of itself, begin to create security concerns for the intelligence community.
The materials we have not released to date due to our concerns about security—and national security, of course—are classified, so the impact you're talking about is even more profound.
If I may, we were asked to provide the materials unredacted to a committee where none of the members had security clearances. They had no ability to handle classified documents nor even to have secure communications. It was done over the World Wide Web.