Could you please table that timeline so that this committee can be reassured about how we go forward?
My concern here is that there seems to be a relationship between the integrity commissioner and the PCO and the PMO, and there should be independence there, because they are actually investigating concerns within government. We know that there has been an e-mail going around, certainly in the public realm. That is the current interim commissioner actually e-mailing Mr. Wouters, who is the chief of the Privy Council, talking about wanting to give him a heads up, that there is one issue his office is currently not privy to, that the clerk must be briefed on, and that he'd be pleased to provide details to the PCO to ensure that Wayne is not blindsided.
So there is this interaction that I have some real concerns about. What we don't want to see is that this person is no longer an independent officer of Parliament. We want to make sure they are actually able to work on behalf of the whistle-blowers who come forward.
There is where the concern lies. If you're truly independent of that—and again, they're protecting whistle-blowers—they should have a disengaged relationship.