Mr. Chair, I appreciate the comment that maybe there's a contradiction.
When I worked on that report after I arrived in the office in 2009 and when my office worked on that report a few years ago, I found that the former chief justice recommended that we amend the NDA to include that. Eight years later, it was not done, so when I wrote to the minister, I told the minister that there are other ways of doing it, because giving a financial delegation to the CDS could be done. When the minister's office stated in the media that to do this they would have to make a legislative amendment, I was concerned, because those legislative amendments hadn't been done for eight years with Chief Justice Lamer.
The minister himself said to me in a letter that we need to close this once and for all, and when I saw that it was not in Bill C-41, I saw this opportunity to close it right now. This is why I said it has to be in legislation: because if we don't do it, we'll wait another six years to find the proper way of doing it.