The reason I ask this, Madam Jeffrey, is that the role of the president, the responsibilities of the president and the authorities of the president are to grant security clearances and oversee the classification of employees and the access of those employees to the lab. Could you let the clerk of the committee know when the president first became aware of these breaches? It's material to that person's responsibility to ensure that security clearances are appropriate at the lab.
The president of PHAC exited her role as president of PHAC on February 27, 2019. A new deputy head was not appointed until May 6 of that year, so there was a period of about 10 weeks in which there was no president of PHAC.
My first question is this: Was there an interim or an acting president of PHAC during that period, from the end of February to the beginning of May 2019?