Right.
Well, it's a point on which I've been reflecting and my colleagues in the law clerk's office have been reflecting. It's an area that we've identified as one that we could continue to reflect on because, indeed, the law clerk's office is responsible for providing advice and legal representation to the House as an institution but also to members.
I think this is one of those areas where it may be challenging from a purely legal standpoint. Where you have a lawyer dealing with one client, if there's any tension between another client, then you could often say, “Well, I'm going to say no to this client, and I'm going to say yes to this one.”
I think that parliamentary privilege recognizes that the institution needs to have certain privileges, but the members as well have privileges, and that they need some autonomy sometimes perhaps even vis-à-vis the institution. This is something that we will look at, and again, I would bring this approach of balance and reconciliation.
Similarly in the human rights context, oftentimes we would have some tension between human rights and national security. My approach was always to say, “Let's not make it an either-or; we want both of those things”, and so I think in this case it would be a similar approach that I would try to put forth.