According to my legislation, my ability to share the information certainly makes a difference. The provision that was added—we refer to 67.1 as the Beaumier amendment--talks about any person. There's no issue there. That's why I elected to make a recommendation to Minister Ambrose that she refer the matter to the RCMP. This case was very public and therefore it was possible that this was all in the public domain, so there was no issue with the minister making this recommendation.
In most instances, my investigations are done in private and confidentially. So if a minister decided not to refer to a matter, I might not be able to share this information. In that circumstance I would probably do another special report to Parliament so that Parliament could be apprised of that and I could use that mechanism.