You understood correctly.
What's a bit tiresome is that, when the RCMP closes a file, it sends it back to me and tells me that it has closed the file. In all honesty, I could table a report in Parliament to explain the work I did. If I do that, though, the principle of natural justice kicks in. I have to contact the people I investigated two, three or four years ago. Very often, those organizations no longer exist, or the people are no longer there.
That means there would be a concern about the principle of natural justice. I don't know what else I could investigate if the act were to tell me to continue the investigation. If the RCMP has done its investigation and decided not to continue, I'm not sure what more I could do with my small team.
Could I prepare a report that explains all that? Perhaps, but to what end? Would it just be to show that I did my job? I'm not sure. I think there would be an attempt to stop me, out of concern for upholding the principle of natural justice.