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The Conservatives have not seen it, no media has seen it, even SNC has not seen it.

The Section 13 document that launched this landslide of political detritus, contradictions, back-biting, leaks and unseemly partisan name-calling remains locked in the vault of legal process, supposedly to protect prosecutorial independence.

Kenneth Jull, a lawyer with Gardiner Roberts LLP and an adjunct law professor at the University of Toronto, says the decision at the heart of the scandal is a “black box” that needs to be opened, revealed, and examined. He believes the current attorney general could intervene and release the decision.

That’s the only way Canadians will ever get at the heart of the scandal and the motives of the key players, including Wilson-Raybould, whose latest document release raised even more questions about the process and her role.

Under current conditions, Jull said in an interview, debate over the SNC-Lavalin scandal is equivalent to reviewing the causes of a plane crash by “listening to a pilot and aviation people discuss the results of the black box (recording) without seeing what’s in the black box.”

Jull said — in an understatement — that it is “pretty difficult” to conduct a careful, principled review of the SNC case without seeing the details and reasoning in the prosecutor’s decision. “I think the government ought to consider waiving that privilege and releasing it.” In a Toronto Law Review commentary published Monday, Jull said it is highly likely SNC “would not complain” about a release of the decision. Indeed, at a recent legal proceeding against the prosecutor, an SNC request for the document was rejected.