Thank you for your question.
I was very busy yesterday, but I had the opportunity to watch a bit of the proceedings on television. You had some very learned experts here--a former clerk of the Privy Council, as well as the Law Clerk of the House of Commons--who actually answered that question probably more eloquently than I could. They explained that a document, and the entirety of a document at one point, certainly is cabinet confidence. But I'm not going to talk about what you.... You've already had two ministers here for two days talking about what's within their jurisdictions. I am here to answer questions about the questions that were asked by the finance committee of the finance department, to answer what are the costs and what are the benefits to corporate tax reductions. I'm not going to re-plow ground that the two ministers obviously covered in two days of appearances in front of this committee.
I think the explanation was given that in answering and in trying to be as transparent as we could be, we extracted what were not necessarily the specifics, to answer the question. As I said, we have actually provided more. Mr. Brison's original motion was very vague. We answered what at the time we thought the committee was looking for. Obviously he protested that and said that he didn't think it was enough.