As I said before in another committee, we have two different principles here, which are very difficult to reconcile.
One of them is the principle of independence, confidentiality, etc.
The other one is this: When you do a prosecution, bring people before court and try to convict them, you have to show that the evidence you obtained is from a clean source of evidence, that it is evidence that is credible and was obtained legitimately. Now, in this case, when documents were forced to be disclosed to the RCMP.... They didn't have a warrant to use. Undoubtedly, in a prosecution, there will be some objections raised. Somebody will say, “No, there was a violation of the Charter of Rights, because these documents weren't obtained through a warrant.”
The court will then have to decide how you reconcile these two principles—the principle of Parliament being supreme and able to order whatever it wants and the principle of a Charter of Rights that protects citizens against unlawful conduct by authorities.