It's funny that you're here at this committee with this, because during the pandemic Don, Luc, me, Robert Kitchen, Darren Fisher, Sonia, Marcus and a lot of us had meetings every single day, I think, at the very beginning. We got to know each other really well, which was the bonus of it, but it was a real drag of information that we were trying to get out. We were looking for the solutions—like some of the stuff that Don indicated were surprises to the committee and a surprise to the minister.
Here, at that committee, for a good six to eight months—I think we might have been the only committee meeting for a while—it was always that we could collectively come together and say that eventually there would be an independent review of everything. Whatever information someone was not sharing, whatever information might be for whatever political purposes, or if it was for privacy purposes and they wanted it to remain confidential, again, we could say that this would eventually come out, so we'd keep going and pushing forward.
What I really worry about with your bill—and I don't think it's intended in this way whatsoever—is that I fear the government has the opportunity to use it in this way and say just exactly what Don indicated. The minister's response at our committee when we go and ask when this is going to happen, because we've been talking about this for so long.... They use your bill as a shield right now to say that it's already something that's being talked about.
You've answered a little bit, but I don't even know if I necessarily need a comment from you. I think it's more of a caution to it.