I know it wasn't.
I have two brief and frightening questions perhaps on the private sector aspect, the hiring of private sector counsel.
Your Prime Minister made a very reckless promise during the campaign to have a full and open inquiry for the victims of Air India. He said that the inquiry would be open to all information, knowing—or he ought to have known—that much of the information would have national security implications, Mr. Minister.
It seems to me that outside counsel, which is a pretty expensive venture, has been fighting with the Department of Justice officials to get proper disclosure because Justice Major was given a very clear mandate that there would be full and open access. How much did that cost taxpayers, that to and from, the renvoi, the back and forth between commission counsel and the Department of Justice? How much did that reckless promise of the Prime Minister cost?
Second, on drug prosecutions, very briefly, you want to clamp down on crime. When you retain outside, private sector counsel to enforce the drug laws, will you put them through the same rigorous examination of their belief in law and order that you are now putting judges through?