When departments are looking into that information which is to be dealt with in camera, they normally also convey this to us through correspondence. Such was the case with the investigation regarding the move and transfer of federal employees. In the case of that investigation, the committee was instructed by the department to deal with the documents in camera. It was on that condition that the department disclosed the information.
I might say that the clerk does a very good job in this regard, because I attempted to access these documents, but it proved to be impossible because I was at the time not a member of the committee, whereas my colleague here had access to the documentation.
It is my belief that certain provisions are in place and that departments can invoke them. However, in this case, they did not do so. All of the attention was devoted to the Departure Agreement issue.
I do not know if I can express an opinion regarding this agreement. We have not learned anything new. It was possible to do all of the calculations and everything was available on the Privy Council Web site.