Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Dr. Franks, I am reading your recommendations. Really, I believe that all your recommendations could be implemented today, if the government wanted. You write that
we should work together on a definition of “cabinet confidence”. We were talking about cabinet confidence; they had already done it with the Afghanistan document. They knew we were asking for documents. They could have proposed that we would sit down and see what they could give. Through the ruling, the Speaker is already saying that Parliament has the right to get those documents, and we're not talking about all kinds. We're not looking at the minutes of cabinet and we're not looking at certain things; we're looking at how much it's going to cost Canadians, how much the taxpayer will pay. That's what we're asking. That's a simple question.
I think we already have your first recommendation, if the government wants to participate in it.