Everybody was smiling for much longer than I would have expected. He was sweating by the end. They managed to put some pretty strong questioning to him without seeming to force him into a corner where he would have to be combative. The answers he was obliged to give show what he was not allowed to talk about, just as clearly as if he'd come out and said it.
I felt particularly represented as a disabled person on ODSP, suffering more than I have to from a lack of treatments available to poor people.