This is why this situation is bizarre. I'm here with my colleagues, Blaine and Eric, and I have information that's highly relevant to Eric's life that I should probably share with him, and I say that I'm going to tell Blaine, but I'm going to tell Blaine not to tell anyone else, including Eric, without asking me first. Then, two years later, I come back and say it's not my fault I didn't tell Eric, because I thought Blaine was going to tell him. The simplest thing would have been for me to just tell the person affected, rather than put it through a circuitous game of telephone with, potentially, caveats attached that limit the sharing of that information anyway, and potentially without all the information involved.
Fundamentally, the question is: Why was all of this nonsense interposed in between the people who had the information, which is the Government of Canada, and the people who needed the information, who were members of Parliament under threat who could have taken further preventative action to protect themselves? Why was it so difficult for the government to just tell us directly?