The investigation basically came to a halt around mid-March, I think, at the meeting of the 16th. We confirmed afterwards and we basically had the road blocked. As I said, how would you launch an investigation further from that with an anonymous complainant and no witnesses, and where it would have been inappropriate to just confront the subject of the complaint at that time?
We never closed the file. I think I would like to correct some of that impression. We decided to leave it open, and see if there was a change, whether the ombudsman would reveal more information that would allow us to at least start some kind of fact-finding, or the complainant would change her mind about trusting enough to talk to us.
The parallel, I think—it's not a great one—is with the incidents at Rideau Hall. Nobody came forward through the formal processes, but once there were complaints in the media, my successor, Mr. Shugart, hired an independent fact-finder and did an investigation of what was going on, a workplace assessment. The difference is that there were multiple complainants and multiple witnesses to interview.