One of the difficulties, Mr. Chair, is that.... I will say I am disappointed in the Clerk of the Privy Council. I asked the Clerk of the Privy Council for advice or assistance about what is considered to be a national security issue, what is considered operational, and what is considered secret. I'm in a bit of difficulty with which is which in my own mind, even though I went through some documents yesterday, some of which have been declassified and some of which have not.
In any event, I guess I'd put it this way, Serge: the fact of the matter is--and the Americans were informed of this and I did acknowledge this--that we had no evidence on Mr. Arar on which to make an arrest within Canada, if he was here. He was considered to be, as they indicated, a person of interest--and it's mentioned in Justice O'Connor's report--the interest being due to his connection to other subjects who were involved in other terrorist activity.