This clerk, and the previous one, because I have served both of them in the last four years, have been insisting in just about every forum where they appear on the fact that the public service must serve its political masters in a non-partisan way. It is, I think, understood throughout this system that such is to be the case.
One would expect that if situations present themselves, and I'm certainly not going to suggest they do because I do not know, but assuming they present themselves, within departments mechanisms are in place. Integrity officers exist. It is the expectation that the deputy ministers will apply those same sets of values we're now talking about such that if an issue of that nature presents itself, it is going to be elevated and be dealt with accordingly.