Mr. Chair, as I mentioned in my opening presentation, according to my interpretation and that of the lawyers and legal counsel who advise me, clause 510.1 raises very serious issues about whether, when an investigation is completed, I will be able to disclose the outcome, except to state that the investigation has been concluded and that we have decided not to take any action.
For cases that receive heavy media attention and in which we would like to assure Canadians that we did an investigation and give them an overview of what we discovered, what we did and why we came to those conclusions, unfortunately I have to say that, when my legal advisers and I read clause 510.1 as proposed, we conclude that our capacity to provide a report like that would be extremely limited, if not completely non-existent.