Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Good morning, Mr. Gomery. I listened carefully to what you said earlier about deputy ministers, especially the actual deputy minister of a department, and I have a question for you. People often say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Sometimes, a concrete example plays the same role and helps to understand.
At the present time, there is a case involving that person who is, for lack of a better term, the first among actual deputy ministers, namely the Clerk of the Privy Council. He has been asked to look into what the first chief of staff, the Chief of staff of the Prime Minister, did in a case involving NAFTA. There is also, if I dare say, the first diplomat, who is the Canadian Ambassador to Washington. In that case, the Prime Minister's Office decided to charge the Clerk of the Privy Council with carrying out that inquiry to determine what was done by the Prime Minister's Chief of staff and the Canadian Ambassador to Washington.
Is that sufficient? If not, could you suggest to us what we should do in order to clear up such a situation, apart from launching a much more formal inquiry, be it judicial or not?