Certainly from my perspective, there's never any issue with more transparency and disclosure.
I do want to point out two things for the committee members. First of all, the date of November 8, 2021, is actually quite significant to what we're talking about. We're talking about trying to determine....
The decision of the jury was initially communicated on November 8, 2021. That's why that date was chosen. That decision of the jury was communicated to the two ministers involved, and from that date forward, there was interference by the Prime Minister's Office. We've seen enough evidence. We know that this has happened. That's what we're trying to find out about. Why was there interference to change the decision?
The only documents that matter are the documents from the date the decision was first communicated and afterward. They're the only ones that matter, because what's at question here is why the government tried to change the decision of the jury. Any document before November 8, 2021, is completely irrelevant to what we're trying to learn as a committee. That's why that date was chosen. It was chosen for a very specific reason.
What I would not want to see is.... Now we're talking about seven and a half more years' worth of documents that we're asking to be provided to the committee. Obviously, when you go back seven and a half more years, you're going to have a significant delay for documents that will clearly produce nothing that will help us to determine what happened here after November 8, 2021, which is what we're trying to determine. You can't determine anything about what happened after November 8, 2021, when the decision was communicated, by looking at events before that.
I will say frankly that I think the motive is to try to deliberately delay this, because clearly what we've seen over the course of a number of months now is an effort—not only that, but over two years prior to the Prime Minister's announcement of the decision to change this—by this government to try to hide whatever caused them to change this. They've gone to fairly significant lengths here.
I will say frankly that I think the motive behind this amendment is to further cover up and hide from that by delaying getting the documents that will actually get to the answers here.
I haven't heard a single reason as to why anything before November 8 will help us get to the bottom of why the Prime Minister's Office interfered after November 8, when the decision was initially communicated to interfere. I don't see what this adds. I think it's deliberately designed to try to delay this committee from doing its work to get to the bottom of this.