We have an unusual set of teeth, and that's what makes us unique. Unlike the Auditor General, whose role it is to audit and make reports, we are actually in the business of auditing and taking corrective measures. That's why in our reports to Parliament we have to say what we found, but also what we did.
We have a couple of instruments. One is the actual delegation; we put conditions on delegations and we can intervene in the staffing processes. Some we'll remove; other times, we do a combination. In the case of the Canadian Space Agency, we removed some and then we imposed some very strong conditions whereby there have to be approvals by us for all future staffing actions.
The other thing we have is the power to revoke positions, so that if there has been an incorrect staffing action, we can actually go in and take the position away.
Under the old legislation we had the power to do that for all positions. Under the new legislation there is a new staffing tribunal set up, and they do that for the internal competitions, but we do it where there is fraud, inappropriate political activity, and for any of the external appointments that were incorrectly done we can revoke the position.