Thank you.
So Mr. Proulx was not implying that the government would do this but that some hypothetical government, other than the one that happens to be sitting here, might do that; therefore, we ought to take measures to ensure that the hypothetical government, not the one that's sitting here...by putting something not into hypothetical rules, but into the rules that are here. I'm glad he's clarified that point for our benefit.
If the government faces, or the opposition faces, a witness we're hostile to, we're going to send somebody to ask them questions. The chance that had this gone forward this would have caused problems...it would be very remote, quite frankly, in the manner he's suggesting. I just find it discouraging that there's talk of wanting to have consensus and goodwill when in fact Mr. Proulx has twice intervened to do what he can to ensure that the government is in fact shut out as much as possible. I find that disappointing.