That's not acceptable, Chair. I'm sorry, but at the end of the day this is not going to fly. I've been here before. This is not going to stand.
My advice to colleagues is that we suspend this meeting, call in the parliamentary law clerk, and have the law clerk tell this committee what our powers are. I guarantee that we're going to be right back here after the parliamentary law clerk talks to the departmental senior law person who gives the proper advice to this deputy about information that they do not have the right to keep from Parliament. This is big.