I'm the deputy minister to the Minister of Justice. We have the same relationship that any deputy minister has to a minister of the Crown. I provide the minister with information and with briefing notes to make decisions. If I ever thought that there was some political interference in a matter where there shouldn't be, I would raise it with the minister and have a discussion with him.
As I said earlier, the Minister of Justice, and his entire office, had no involvement whatsoever in the department's job to review and produce documents before the commission in Nova Scotia. In this case, sir, they would have no involvement whatsoever.