Mr. Chair, with respect to the clarity, accessibility, and consistency, these are the hallmarks of my approach to working within PSIC and they will be the defining features of how I will lead PSIC should my nomination be approved.
I think I can sum it up by saying that if people are going to come to us, they have to know who we are, where we are, what is going to happen to them when they come to us, and they have to be kept advised of what is happening and have to understand our decisions after we make them. That goes to not only how we communicate our work but also to how we carry out our work. This is essential to every step in the case analysis and investigation process.
The link to the advisory committee is that if we have external perspectives from members of this committee.... I mentioned four unions and one organization of executives that is on the committee. We also have a law professor from the University of Ottawa on the committee; we have the administrator of the tribunal who is associated with our office on the committee; and we have representatives of the internal disclosure process. So we have two senior officers, as they're called, from two departments on our committee. For us to be able to discuss what we're doing, how we're doing it, what we're planning to do with these people and to get their perspective is a marvellous investment in both clarity and efficiency, and also consistency.
I will be the chair of this new committee. We'll be meeting for the first time under my chairmanship next month. and I would like to use this committee as a conduit to our core constituency, which is the public service.