Well, that's a good question, because it's not normally something we would answer, as Assistant Commissioner Souccar said. It is always a difficult slope to go down in talking about security clearances. But the decision was made in the Privy Council Office that, given the speculation, it would be better in this case to actually say. But you're right to point out that it is not normally what we would do; we normally do not speak about background checks, whether it's for this government or any other government.
On June 17th, 2008. See this statement in context.