Fair enough.
To the CBA, I was a bit worried about one of your comments about access to information. You noted:
The Canadian Bar Association opposes passage of Bill C-22 if it contains section 16, and recommends that section be deleted.
Clause 14 seemed to me to be a more worrisome clause, because it doesn't allow for any discretion to be exercised by the minister and doesn't have any additional criterion that would require the disclosure of the information to the committee to be “injurious to national security”.... It was mandatory.
We can look at the U.K., hearing from the ministerthat this committee is largely built on the U.K.'s experience. The minister does have discretion to veto providing information to the committee where it's sensitive information and where the provision or disclosure is deemed to be counter to the interests of national security.
I wonder if you could perhaps speak to why you're so worried about clause 16, and why the additional criterion of “injurious to national security” and the discretion that the minister would exercise—hopefully rarely, akin to the U.K.—is so worrisome. Why would you opposed the bill if it's not removed?