Where there's criminal activity, it would always be the obligation of the commissioner to turn that over to the police. We'd be talking about other kinds of wrongdoing--gross mismanagement, breaking of laws and regulations that are not criminal, and so forth.
The problem here is partly that if you look at sections 33 and 34 of the disclosure act, on the one hand, one is entitled as a commissioner to receive information about public service wrongdoing from outside and act on it--one can receive a complaint, an allegation, from a person in the private sector--but then section 34 says one can't follow that up effectively because one has to turn it over. The two sections, in my view, are at odds because one says we can take an allegation from outside and the other says you can't really effectively do anything with it. If you get it from outside, you normally would want to do as you do within the public service--question the discloser, look for witnesses outside as well, test the documents that are being provided--but all of that can't really be done. So you have two very good sections, but they're at odds, in my view.