Public Accounts committee  That's what I believe. It's Deputy Commissioner Gauvin, but, yes, there were suggestions made.

Public Accounts committee  No, I don't, sir.

Public Accounts committee  I believe Deputy Gauvin had in a memo.... A memo was written to Superintendent Lavoie with opinions on what should be released and what shouldn't be. That's why I had replied and was getting frustrated with the whole situation.

Public Accounts committee  I'm not sure if he was after the particular document I have. When I went back to work part-time, as a casual employee, I was asked to look at the pension file again by Corporal Luc Poulin, and he suggested I take a look because I was familiar with all these files. When I was going through the files, I noticed there were documents missing that I had written, with no rhyme nor reason as to why they would be missing.

Public Accounts committee  I kept this copy and I also kept a copy of the memo I had written. I had written a memo to the OIC of the day, who was Superintendent Lavoie, about the unethical conduct, in my opinion, of Deputy Gauvin's involvement with the files, because it's highly unusual to be put in that situation.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  Yes. I can table the A5. It has been translated.

Public Accounts committee  I have a copy of the memo I had written about Deputy Gauvin. I can table that.

Public Accounts committee  That's correct. When I went back, the A5 that I wrote should have been there, because it was dated and noted to that file, and it wasn't there.

Public Accounts committee  It's not the original. It's a photocopy of my copy.

Public Accounts committee  I understand from a recent telephone conversation with the access to information investigator who's currently investigating the delay in this file that a document is missing that I wasn't aware of. It's apparently another A5 that I had prepared for the OIC, and it's not in the file.

Public Accounts committee  An A5 is an inter-office transit slip. It can be either typed or handwritten. A “pink slip” is another name for it--not the one where they get rid of you, but it's a pink form.

Public Accounts committee  I believe he came from Deputy Commissioner Gauvin's office, which would have been finance. He was transferred on a promotion. He was an inspector in finance. He was promoted to superintendent to transfer to our branch as the officer in charge.

Public Accounts committee  The branch is set up so that when we have requests going out, heads-up are given to ES&ML;, which is the ministerial liaison unit, and to media relations. I was also told to send a heads-up with the package, what we were going to send out, to Deputy Commissioner Gauvin and to the assistant commissioner at the time, George.

Public Accounts committee  It's very unusual to have someone who is named in a report be able to read what we're going to release or send out and be able to comment on it.