This is my final question. In July, the Standing Committee on Finance adopted an order for the production of documents related to the WE Charity matter, and the committee directed the government to provide the documents in unredacted form to the Office of the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel—that was you—for redaction according to the parameters set out in that production order.
However, in a letter to the clerk of the finance committee, you indicated that the government had once again redacted the documents prior to providing them to your office. In testimony before the Standing Committee on Finance, Mr. Shugart said the following:
I'm afraid that it is a fact that if the executive branch were to give all of the documents of cabinet confidence or commercial sensitivity or solicitor-client privilege or national security to the law clerk, it would be, in a sense, waiving that privilege, because the law clerk is a servant of the legislature, not of the executive.
So, if the government does this again with respect to the present directive—i.e., it redacts for reasons not stipulated in the motion or it does the redaction—what would your view be of whether that would be conforming to the motion of the House and the privileges of this committee and the House?