Madam Chair, I'll just briefly circle back to my earlier comments. The Canadian Armed Forces set up institutions specifically to protect the anonymity of victims who want to come forward, and to empower and enable them to do so. An example is the sexual misconduct response centre.
It is individual documents, records, emails and texts—all the things that are mentioned in the motion—that create a risk. The real risk, Madam Chair, is the aggregate effect of all these documents being out there in the public realm. The aggregate effect, to my knowledge, is not being assessed by those people who are checking the confidentiality of this.
Once they're all out there, the cross-linkage of these various documents—even though none of them may have the name of the complainant or victim in them—could still, in fairly clear terms, point in the direction of the complainant. Further, Madam Chair, they could be used by members of the public who will see them to speculate as to who the complainant might be. That is beyond the control of the committee, so the committee, in that sense, will have failed to do its part to protect the wishes and identity of the victim.
I just wanted to stress that once again for the consideration of all members.