Thank you, Dean Condon.
I'm sorry, but I'm going to be asking you questions on this matter, too, based upon your testimony. I really do appreciate what you gave us at the beginning.
This is not necessarily a hypothetical, but I'm trying to lay out the facts as a process. Maybe you can help me understand, based upon what you've said.
A decision to prosecute has been made. The criminal proceedings have a date for a preliminary inquiry six weeks on. The Attorney General has decided that they're not going to intervene and has said so, but the pressure continues on the Attorney General to change their mind. Where I'm going with this is that for me it was interesting for you to talk about the remedies. The Attorney General continues to get submissions, and what you said is that, parliamentarily, either they're accountable to Parliament for the decision they made—and I accept and agree—but then you said resign if she didn't think she had the confidence of cabinet.
If nobody told her that she didn't have the confidence of cabinet, how would she know whether or not to resign from the pressure it was putting on her? At what point does she become obliged to put up her hand as the Attorney General, given that nobody is saying, “You're in danger here, your job...we don't believe you, and you're not doing a great job”? If she still enjoys the cabinet's confidence, how would she know whether or not to resign?