Mr. Chair, I want to reinforce and echo the member's assessment that we are extremely focused on the need to maintain our very strong reputation in the agency and what we do. We are very much focused on taking action to maintain our strong reputation, which we believe we have.
We have taken measures in terms of being proactive in looking into the cases and the allegations that have been brought forward. All allegations are looked at seriously. With the resources that we have, we've refocused some of our investigation capacity from lower priorities to higher priorities.
So as a concrete example, just to demonstrate, obviously as an organization of our size we have investigation capacity, both from an employee perspective and from a review of files, etc. We have increased our resources in terms of shifting resources from the lower priorities within the agency to focus on this particular case. We are also looking at what kind of system changes we need to undertake in the agency to be able to detect on a more timely and proactive basis situations like the one that's been referenced.
We are looking at areas such as segregation of duties, for example. What I mean by segregation of duties, Mr. Chair, is basically ensuring that in certain of our functions the same person does not have the ability to make various decisions throughout the process.
All of these measures are being looked at. We're increasing our resources in those areas and what we're doing is basically shifting resources from lower priorities.
