Let me assure you, Chair and members of the committee, Mr. Vaughan is an employee of the Office of the Auditor General. We are a separate employer. We have our own hiring and classification practices. Government does not intervene in any decisions we have as regards human resources, and I would be the first to inform Parliament quite vocally should government ever try to intervene in our human resource practices.
On May 7th, 2008. See this statement in context.