Look, you have both Minister Day and Mr. Brown before you tomorrow. Those are legitimate questions to ask them. The minister put the process in place.
I do, however, think that there are probably reasons, if you were in Mr. Brown's situation, why you might want to conduct at least significant parts of your inquiry in private. You're dealing with cultural issues. These are not quantifiable scientific issues; these are qualitative issues about this organization, and you want people to come forward and be honest about how they see that culture, the problems they've seen in the past with the culture, how they might like to see changes take place in that culture. And Mr. Brown probably has at least some concern about whether you hear as much as you need to, as candidly and frankly as you need to, if this is all televised day after day. You do run the risk of it becoming a bit of a sideshow.
You should ask Mr. Brown the question, but I can understand why he would make the recommendation.
At the end of the day, it is a balance, and the minister and Mr. Brown, the task force chair, have to work that out, just as you work out the terms of reference of a public inquiry. The person who is chairing it won't take the job if he or she believes, after their discussions with the minister and the department, that the terms of reference don't permit them to do what they need to do in the way they need to do it. Mr. Brown and the minister must have talked about why Mr. Brown felt this was appropriate, and the minister must have reasons why he agreed with Mr. Brown that this was the right way to go.
And I respect that process. Having been a minister, I respect the fact that this discussion takes place and they get to decide. Having said that, I don't know why Mr. Brown felt that way initially.