Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Hello, Mr. Wernick. Thank you for appearing before the committee today.
My first question for you really goes to your experience as a very long-serving and distinguished member of the public service.
The committee has been diving into this issue here for a number of weeks. I think one of the questions that have come up fairly frequently, particularly from my friends across the way, has been around the question of the impartiality or non-partisan ethics of the public service, particularly when a conflict of interest screen is in place and managed either in whole or in part by a deputy head, a deputy minister or the Clerk of the Privy Council.
My question for you would be this: Just as a starting point, what sort of guidance, training, or ethical code or oaths are you privy to as a senior member of the public service that would guide how you would look at a situation in which you were responsible for being part of managing a screen, for example?