Mr. Speaker, the reason why I did not admit that we were conducting studies on duplication is because we are not. What I said is that we were doing analyses of the current situation and that the purpose of these analyses is to give advice to the decision makers, that is to say, the ministers.
I would point out to the opposition that similar analyses done for the Executive Council of the Quebec Government are not made public either, since they give confidential advice to the decision makers. There is an essential difference between such analyses, which are exempted under the Access to Information Act, and studies done by research institutes like the INRS, which are meant to be published so that the public can have a better idea of what independence would entail. That is something they are hiding, whereas we are not hiding what we have.