What I'm concerned about, again, is the protection of the Auditor General's role and of the public servants who would then come before us. I'm concerned that they would be at risk of being themselves criminally charged with disclosing information. That's in the immediate time. It's also the risk that if we're out there looking for more vaccines—God forbid—there will be companies that just don't want to do business with us anymore. That would be extremely unfortunate.
Chair, I'm going to leave it at that for now. I hope that my colleagues hear the fact that we do want to look at these documents now. I say “want”; I “will” look at them. I have confidence in what the Auditor General has told us, which is that these were done in good faith and to the best of the abilities of all those departments that work together. That is one of the conclusions that she comes to in report 9.
However, I would like that to be done on a consensus basis. If my colleague is offering a way to get to that consensus, I think it's something that I would ask my colleagues to consider.
Thank you, Chair.