No. Every time we have the privilege of appearing before a committee such as yours, as officials, we prepare and do a lot of research to ensure that every point we make is based in fact. In that connection, I discovered a statement that Minister Manley made 15 years ago that concerned a matter about which someone was harassing him in the House. He answered that he would have liked to talk about it but that the act prevented him from doing so. So this has been a common practice since the act has been in effect.
On August 7th, 2009. See this statement in context.