Mr. MacGregor, through the Chair, thank you for the question, and thank you for your participation this morning. I'm happy to see you.
You referred to all of us as constituency MPs ask for chronologies from the immigration department with respect to particular files, and that's a process the immigration department endeavours to provide. I hope that colleagues will understand in this case you're dealing with two individuals who are facing nine very serious criminal terrorism charges and are currently in custody. There is an active prosecution under way and a publication ban issued by the court, so the ability of the immigration department or even CBSA or CSIS to simply produce a timeline necessarily has to go through the filter of the RCMP to ensure we're not prejudicing inadvertently a criminal prosecution. I know lawyers from the Department of Justice were providing advice. Public Safety senior officials were getting advice from lawyers.
Recognizing that it should have been here earlier, Mr. MacGregor, and that I regret, but I wanted to make sure we didn't rush something that inadvertently became in a criminal trial a reason to perhaps have an adverse finding or an adverse result. I wanted to make sure the RCMP and the prosecutors at the Department of Justice were comfortable that we were releasing the maximum amount of information we could without in any way endangering a criminal prosecution or risking violating a publication ban that the court has seen fit to put in place.