I think to fill out the whole argument and rationale, it's well understood in the public service that if a public servant gives advice to a minister, he is not obligated to answer that question, but the minister may be called to answer it instead. Mr. Alfonso Gagliano was, of course, before the committee at a later time.
Now, I don't recall if.... I think there may have been some reference to the PCO allowing him to be more forthcoming as far as his advice to the minister was concerned, but what we are concerned with here, of course, is statements in one place versus statements in another. I only wanted to clear up, to make sure there was no shadow of a doubt, that there was any inhibition on his capacity to answer questions before, so that the evidence that we're using is clear and under oath, without any inhibition.