Assuming that's the case--I'll just jump ahead a bit--I was a little disappointed to hear you say, sir, that you have a review going on and the recommendations and findings will be available at the end of this month. That is convenient in that we would have already met.
Was there any attempt, on your part, to call the clerk's department and say, “I have an internal review. You might want to hold off on your hearing until you get that review”? I'll give you a chance to comment on that. I found that it looks a bit strange that this well-publicized meeting is going to happen before the internal review is done, and there didn't seem to be any attempt to try to coordinate those things--the things at hand, the blueprints.
The other question is, should they have been labelled classified? Even if you followed all the procedures and ticked off all the boxes, that doesn't make the world okay. It's only a human-created piece of paper with human-created little boxes that may have got checked off, but at the end of the day maybe that procedure needs to change. Maybe that's where we are. Maybe that's what we'll find out from today. Your internal procedures were okay in terms of the boxes being ticked off, but we need to generate a whole new checklist and we need other boxes to be ticked off maybe in a more timely fashion.
But I have a real problem accepting that it's okay and it's not a big deal that blueprints for the new Canadian Joint Incident Response Unit in Trenton were found in the garbage. Let me get this straight. This unit is going to be the military's main responder to chemical, biological, and radioactive threats. That's what this centre is for. The design plans show, as far as we know, the electrical grid scheme for the unit's computers and details about sewer systems, areas for workshops, seed container loading docks, and offices for the unit's various troops. There is also a blueprint for the storage bay for the unit's robots, which are designed to detect chemical and biological agents. Never mind the checklist.
Somebody here please tell me, in a layperson's way, how that is not a security risk at some point. I'm a layperson. Explain to me how blueprints that show that kind of detail about the building are not a risk that you shouldn't take.