Thank you, gentlemen, for participating in our review.
Without a doubt, and as you have referred to, there have been some common themes. I want to tease out some of these themes a little more in a series of questions.
First, perhaps I can direct this to Mr. Kapoor. We had a series of deponents here who were concerned about the information flow that you referred to. I think it was Professor Roach who called it—it just stayed in my mind—“a triple lock”. You have clause 8, then clause 14, and then you have clause 16 and the interplay of all those clauses. He was worried—and instilled the worry in me—that there are all sorts of off-ramps for the government to not provide the information.
Both of you gentlemen have said that we are busy parliamentarians who want to do a good job for the people of Canada. It doesn't matter what side of the House you are on: you want to do that. But if we are going to do this.... I came from a government that didn't want to do this, but now we're at the point where we are doing it—