Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you, Madam Doucet. It's nice to see you again. Welcome back.
The government operations committee, of course, is the oversight committee for the PCO. This is why we invite you to give your departmental reports here, and we certainly welcome those.
In that light, though—I wear two hats, in a sense, because I also chair the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics—I have a question for you regarding your departmental review.
First, where specifically in your policies is it written that when a person leaves you destroy all the e-mails and correspondence associated with that person?
We've been hearing that it's standard protocol, and in fact PCO policy, that when a person leaves the employ of the PCO, all correspondence and e-mails are immediately destroyed. I find this in conflict with, as I say, my other role on the access to information committee, where it's in fact law to document and to retain documents of the activities of government.
Is the PCO somehow excluded from the Access to Information Act and the requirements to create documents and to retain documents?