On Mr. Lukiwski's point, in the discussion, Mr. Cappe said, “I'm not passing judgment on whether that's the right information”. He was recognizing that there is a legitimate case for cabinet confidence in certain cases. I don't think anybody at the committee disagrees with that, but on more than one occasion during his testimony, Mr. Cappe—and the researchers included this—also maintained that the government's decision to invoke cabinet confidence had been unfounded. Further, Mr. Cappe affirmed that he considered the decision to not provide this information to be unjustified.
We all agree with the principle of cabinet confidence, but in this case, which is what we're dealing with, Mr. Cappe said on more than one occasion during his testimony that cabinet confidence in this case had been unfounded. He also said that using cabinet confidence to protect this specific information was “unjustified”.
I'm being constructive; I'm just not certain of the pertinence of it.