Thank you for the question.
If there's a wrongdoing found, I know that sometimes the commissioner can make some suggestions for where to look for discipline, but it's up to the deputy head. The deputy heads at my level are accountable in the public service for discipline and for managing the human resources within a department. The deputy heads, in those cases where wrongdoing is found, do immediately start looking at possible discipline. In some cases they may hire a third party to look at what should be done. When I was reading your committee's testimony, I noted that it's one of the areas where oftentimes the deputy head has to start all over again with a separate investigation and can't use the investigation that's been done by the commissioner into wrongdoing. If that could be made available to the deputy head for the investigation, I think it would certainly help facilitate proper discipline.
They have a wide range of mechanisms available to them. If the deputy head, for example, thinks that they could be in some kind of conflict, they can also ask another department or somebody to look into the discipline for them. There are various mechanisms that exist, but it is the deputy head who does the report.