Thank you.
I think this committee is very interested in PSAC's perspective on this issue so, if you have additional thoughts, you can provide them to the committee in writing.
There are different aspects of the arrive scam work we've been doing. There are the particulars of the scandal, of course, with missing records and rigged processes, but there's also the question of how this government is allowing so much money to be spent outside as well as inside government.
I want to ask you about another aspect of that, which is the concern about reprisals against public servants, following testimony at this committee. We had an instance where two senior public servants appeared before this committee and, in response to questions, gave testimony that was critical of the people they reported to. They were told immediately after that they were under investigation. They were subsequently suspended without pay in the middle of an investigation. How rare is it that this would happen? What are your reflections on this suspicious timeline, this suspicious train of events?