What I meant to say about my opening remarks about constitutional apology was that primarily it applies where the person is in office. However, I allowed, toward the end, that if they're no longer in office, you might be able to summon the person before the committee, but then, once you get into questions about what the person did when in office, you are then into the same problem of challenging the viceregal representative about his or her official functions. Again, we're not talking about some statutory rule here; we're talking about tradition and the constitutional niceties of better practice. You don't hold a viceregal person to account for their official functioning.
On June 13th, 2007. See this statement in context.