Mr. Speaker, the hon. member should understand that each and every year literally hundreds upon hundreds of requests are made of the Privy Council Office to have access to cabinet confidences.
What the hon. member is making reference to is a cabinet confidence. As told to the hon. member and as told to the House not once, not twice, but on three previous occasions, there are other ways in which commission counsel can have access to that information by subpoenaing, if necessary, individuals who could elaborate on the various facts that apparently are important to the commission and its counsel.
There are ways this information can be gathered other than releasing cabinet confidences.