When it comes to the legal aspect, we are not the only option. In every department, there is a senior officer appointed by the deputy minister to handle these cases. When individuals want to disclose what they consider to be wrongdoing, an act that they witnessed, they can disclose it to their supervisor, as stipulated under the act, to the senior officer at the department or agency or to our office.
Every year, for the past four or five years, the Treasury Board tables a report on the disclosures within the departments and agencies. The numbers are going up. People are starting to become familiar the legislation. It has been only four years. There has been change, but the legislation is far from achieving its full potential.