Some of the answer to that question will fall back into my own personal opinion, so I'll avoid that. However, I would offer to you in all sincerity today that I felt quite comfortable with the information I shared with you, in that a change in classification would not have significantly changed my testimony. I think you're getting a good perspective from today's interview. I hope you are.
Typically classification is more about timing than it is about the content of the information. We use classification to protect national interests—national security and national safety—and we do it because the information at any given time would be incredibly valuable or risky should it fall into the wrong hands. However, given time, that same information is no longer a threat and therefore should no longer be classified.
I think there's a tremendous amount of information available in an unclassified discussion about lessons learned and about our reaction to certain situations that will give you a very good perspective on how we operate day to day. When we start talking about active operations and about things we're going to do tomorrow, that level of classification is there for a reason. It is to protect equities that are important to Canadians, and that's where you may be running into a challenge.
In my realm, in today's discussion we didn't go there, so I'm hoping you're getting rich content that will help advise you in your decisions that are forthcoming.