Thank you very much.
With regard to the concerns you're expressing, again, I guess I want you to try to think.... I have tried to put myself into the context of what I would feel if I were the general counsel at one of these companies. I'd like you to put yourself in the context of what you would think if you were a member of the committee.
There seems to be, from the position you're taking.... I'm feeling here, at least, that there is a distrust of the members of the committee in a way that you didn't distrust the public servants.
As Mr. McCauley said, there are many public servants who have access to this contract, whether in the legal department or the procurement department, etc., and this would be a motion where a limited number of parliamentarians would view this document in a room without the aid of any equipment to take pictures of it or to copy it. The civil servants actually would have the contract and who knows...?
I am pleading with you to reconsider.
Let me first ask you a question. Is the concern you have that, if you allow or say you would allow parliamentarians in one country to see the document, then parliamentarians in other countries would mimic this exercise and would somehow see the documents in different ways where they wouldn't be as equally protected as they are in Canada? That might be a good reason. Can you let me understand if that is one of the issues?
That is directed to any of you.