I meant no.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Look, I'm going to, again, not go on too long. I'm just going to briefly respond.
Lots of accusations, I think, were almost thrown out about the motive of people on this side, which I don't take very kindly to. I didn't come here with any partisanship. I didn't say anything that was partisan at all. I didn't make any imputations of the motives of anybody. In fact, I acknowledge and agree that the committee has the right to the documents. I said it from the beginning. I have never taken the position that parliamentary committees don't have a right to documents. Parliamentary committees have an absolute right to documents.
The question, then, is this: When we say there is an absolute right to the unredacted documents, what is the responsible way to get that?
I agree with you as well that confidentiality is important. But it was also clear, from what I understand, that the easiest way to get the documents in an unredacted way without breaching the agreement is through this process that was said in the amendment.
We came here in good faith with an amendment. We didn't come and say, no, we don't want you to have unredacted documents. We agree that you should have them. We came with an amendment that would set out a different process, a slightly different process than the one in the original motion. Now, everybody has a right to agree or not agree with that amendment. But to say that that amendment somehow is seeking to protect X or X....
It's seeking to protect Canadian taxpayers from litigation for no reason, because there's a process to get the documents that doesn't involve that level of risk. Of course, we can all assess whether that risk is worth it or not. To say that our non-partisan civil service that enters into agreements and then provides advice as to what the scope of that agreement is and the way that parliamentarians should best access it, is somehow against Canadians, I don't think is fair either.
Tonight, I heard from my opposition colleagues, fairly, that they don't want the NDA. Okay. So, I came back with another proposal. I said let the department have until the next meeting to go to the suppliers and see if there's an alternative.
Sorry? You were talking.