Mr. Chairman, perhaps I could describe the process and then try to respond with respect to specific kinds of information.
There were several stages throughout the conduct of the inquiry by Mr. Justice O'Connor. The initial stage dealt with the production of documents for the inquiry. The complete documents that were relevant were provided to Mr. O'Connor and his team, including his lawyers. Then there was a process whereby documents were redacted. In other words, each document was considered, and for material about which there were concerns with respect to confidentiality based on national security, there were redactions made. Documents in the redacted form were then submitted to commission counsel.
Throughout the period, there were discussions largely between commission counsel and government counsel with respect to those redactions. The redactions were the subject of discussions initially in relation to public hearings as opposed to in camera hearings. In other words, what documents and in what form would be referred to and relied on in the public hearings as opposed to the in camera hearings. Then redactions were also the subject of discussion in the context of the commission making either summaries of evidence or reports.
As Mrs. Bloodworth has indicated, there was an interdepartmental group that was involved in the redaction of documents, was involved in support to our government counsel in discussions with commission counsel in an effort to reduce the amount of material that was redacted, and in an effort to come to a common understanding between counsel with respect to which exemptions were appropriate and which were not.