Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, as I mentioned the last time we touched on this topic, nothing to date has been provided that would indicate the normal security requirements related to classified documents are in fact going to be upheld.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, we do not table the legal advice we get.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, no, I will not waive the privilege.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, I am actually in no position to know the will of Canadians on this matter, so I won't conjecture. Thank you.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, I've been saying in the course of this proceeding that I'm governed by a desire to stay within the law. I don't have opinions of the nature you're asking after.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, to my understanding, nothing that has occurred changes my legal obligation under the Security of Information Act, which, as you know, includes sanctions in the Criminal Code. There are very strict limits and sanctions for the behaviour that is bei

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, as I mentioned earlier, I'm not advised or aware that the motions relieve me from my legal obligations.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, thank you for the question. We don't fund government-approved accommodations. The travellers pay for those directly themselves.

Health committee  On terminology, maybe to declutter, there are the government-approved accommodations, the PHAC hotels, and then there are designated quarantine facilities, which are infection control containment units. If you wish me to explain what's in the envelope of money, I can do that, but

Health committee  Okay. Thank you, sir.

Health committee  As I mentioned, it's the Department of Justice.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, what I was trying to do was disentangle. I have to abide by the law.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, the acts of Parliament that I'm following were passed by the House and the rest of Parliament. They have the full force of law. I have to act in a way that is consistent with them.

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, you are parliamentarians and know better than I do whether the House of Commons is equivalent to the totality of Parliament. My understanding is that an act of law is passed by the Commons as well as the Senate, etc., through a process than involv

Health committee  Mr. Chair and honourable member, in order to make a determination about whom classified material can be handed to, normally we look at the levels of protection around the material before we transfer it. That would be my response.