I do. Thank you, Mr. MacGregor. It's an important point. I'll say a couple of things.
One is that AG consent is in various places throughout the Criminal Code. We can talk about the context of a prosecution for some of the hate propaganda offences, for example. It's in the code for specific reasons, but primarily as a safeguard. When we express an understanding, we want the code to reflect the understanding that the interests in play are very significant. When you're talking about potential restraints of charter rights in the context of something that might have been orchestrated by a foreign nation, you're talking about very serious crimes, as opposed to a simple break and enter or uttering threats.
I appreciate your point. We had a pretty extensive analysis of the division between the roles of AG and the Minister of Justice. That was done by a former attorney general, Anne McLellan. She talked about how the system we have can continue to work.
Having somebody—such as a person in my role right now—reflecting on this is important, since when we're dealing with foreign interference, we're potentially dealing with very sensitive information of the type described by Minister LeBlanc. It deals with sensitive state relation matters, both with the state at issue and with other states that may have been co-operating with us to provide us intelligence. Given that aspect, I think it's very important for somebody who has a political lens to provide input as to whether a prosecution should or should not proceed.