Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  No. I can assure you that I have a basis for answering that question in that way.

Government Operations committee  I'll turn to Biagio.

Government Operations committee  Let's see if I can say something with a different tack. Maybe I'm only going to say the same thing. I apologize for that. Some did not want to go forward with Phoenix. That's fair. We're hearing that now. I heard it more afterward than before. After it was implemented and after

Government Operations committee  The PSES, I believe, has been brought to this table by TBS. It does ask questions about fear of reprisal. You mentioned yourself that those are not impressive, either across government or in our own department.

Government Operations committee  Yes, 44% would not be worried about bringing something forward. The exact question escapes me.

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, so the majority—

Government Operations committee  We recognize that. We are doing a lot of work to try to create a climate that is—

Government Operations committee  The results have not been impressive over the years. We continue every year, every month, every week—

Government Operations committee  I don't think it's about the act. The question in fact isn't about the act. It's about just bringing forward a complaint, so it's more general than that. Look, I believe that in the private sector, that in the public sector, and in NGOs, anyone who is going to bring forward a c

Government Operations committee  I can talk really quickly, Mr. Chair. I said in my opening remarks that just on the investigative side, we at PSPC, specifically Biagio, get procurement complaints from the old Public Works. That's not going to surprise you. We get them from all kinds of places, including outsid

Government Operations committee  I have two or three threads to that question. I don't accept—

Government Operations committee  Okay, I'll try. It can be the case that employees or unions or executives do not necessarily agree with the policy of the Government of Canada. It happens.

Government Operations committee  Disagreement with policy, disagreement with implementation, or maybe, after the fact, not being very happy with implementation, and rightly so, obviously, in this case.... It's not evident that that is equivalent to a wrongdoing, whether under the act or in our other investigativ

Government Operations committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chairman. I'll try a short answer. Every deputy minister is responsible for operations in their department. If there is something going wrong, they're responsible for looking into it, whether under the act we're talking about or through interna