Thank you, Chair.
Thank you very much, Professor, for attending today. I appreciate it.
Perhaps I could just pick up where Madame Gagnon left off on the GG. Another presenter had the same opinion you have: that it's not in the best interests of our system for the GG to give reasons after the fact.
I'm still having some trouble getting my head around that. I've mentioned before that Canadians are no longer as deferential as they used to be to all the powers that be, even up to and including the Queen and her representatives. And as for this notion that there's some kind of mysticism that needs to be protected in order to make the system work.... I'm just having trouble getting there.
Please help me understand why you believe it wouldn't be wise for the GG to give reasons. There's so much power there, so much authority, and in this day and age of accountability--and we're living through that personally as members of Parliament, writ large--accountability is the cornerstone. And here we are, saying that the highest authority in the country, we could argue, with the ultimate power to decide who gets to form a government, is to remain in secret as to why certain decisions are made. Help me to understand in that context how keeping things secret is helpful.