Here's what happened. At the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is the secretariat of a Cabinet committee, it was considered that certain documents constituted Cabinet secrets. We can have access to certain documents, but we are of the view that other documents, such as opinions to ministers, are not essential for us to do our work. We have to understand the decisions. We regularly receive Cabinet decisions, but we're not entitled to all the documents, and, in this specific case, certain documents of the Treasury Board Secretariat were classified in the category of Cabinet secrets. We could undertake a major debate, but once that classification is made, we have no further recourse but to put that before Parliament.
The order we were working with dated back to 1983 and was not as specific as the present order. The latter is more specific as regards the documents to which we are entitled and those to which we are not. We work with the government to obtain more directives. That's why I say that I hope we won't have this problem in future. The directives will be clearer.