Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I want to follow up where Mr. Brunelle-Duceppe was going.
What I believe I heard you say was that if there were a risk to the workplace, someone could be removed temporarily while allegations were being investigated.
Clearly, if the chief of the defence staff, who is in charge of eliminating sexual misconduct in the military, is accused of that very thing, surely this would be a situation that would qualify as something that required his removal, at least temporarily.
I'm not going to ask you to judge that, but I am going to ask, shouldn't it be the role of the minister to inform you, if that were the case? If it were perceived to be that he couldn't do the job because of the allegations without potentially causing serious damage to the program and to the Canadian Forces, is it the responsibility of the minister to inform the PCO, if that were the case?