Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Good afternoon Mrs. Shepherd; thank you for coming here today. You always have interesting and intriguing testimony to provide.
I am going to give you some background. In Quebec, over the past several months, we have been watching the rather painful spectacle of the Charbonneau Commission, which has undertaken a sweeping investigation and will continue to investigate into collusion and corruption in the construction industry. Now we are seeing that is reaching even further. There have been several examples of testimony from individuals at the municipal level and this is also implicating individuals at the provincial level.
Can you say with any confidence that we are sheltered from this at the federal level? In other words, with the legislation and your office's resources, are we able to say that we do not need to worry and that what is happening in Montreal and Laval could not happen here in Ottawa?