Thank you, Chair.
What we have this morning is the same as what we had last week, which is the opposition coalition trying to hide information from the media and the Canadian public, information that is really critical to this issue.
When they went in camera and tried to pass a motion limiting this report to two pages, they had no evidence. Now they come back here after the weekend, it's Monday morning, and they're trying to eliminate essential evidence. Cabinet confidence really goes to the essence of what we spent three days doing last week; that is, trying to find a balance between what should be a cabinet confidence and what information committees should be able to have. That's what we're supposed to be deciding, and it should be an open process.
The opposition is trying to eliminate the very essence of what all these hearings have been about. We had two ministers come. We had Minister Nicholson and Minister Toews. They spent two hours, and then the opposition complained, so they cancelled their plans and came the next day for more time. They had Minister Oda for two hours. We've given them everything they want. We gave them a book this thick with factual information that they didn't want to hear, as evidenced by their questions and their speeches, which went on and on. They didn't listen to the answers.
I want to thank the analysts for this report. Thus far, I've zipped through it quickly in 15 minutes. These sections are absolutely of the essence. What is a cabinet confidence? There's a reference in the report to Madame Sauvé, former Speaker of the House of Commons, who said it's the government's prerogative to decide when documents are of a confidential nature. That's of the essence as well. I go over to paragraph 17, in which the former Clerk of the Privy Council--