I understand the need to know. I also understand its impact, especially in the case of foreign interference. There is a reason so many recommendations came out of the study on Bill C‑70.
On the flip side, what are the negative effects? What can happen following a request like that? There are considerations related to security and the protection of parliamentarians, to say nothing of the information itself, which has to be known and disclosed, but at what cost?
What would the risk be?