Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would also like to express my condolences to Shelby Kramp-Neuman.
Thank you for being here, Minister. It's good to see you doing well.
I would like to start with questions about a newspaper article published in September. The article was about a report by the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner in which he mentioned that the Department of National Defence had violated the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act. The report found that, contrary to the requirements of the act, the Department of National Defence, in a number of cases, did not inform whistle-blowers of the outcome of their requests or publish on its website the result of those requests when they led to a finding of wrongdoing. These were whistle-blowers who had filed complaints in 2015, and it took a slap on the wrist for Commissioner Joe Friday in 2020-21 for that to finally be published.
Do you think this is a result of an internal management problem at the Department of National Defence or a cultural problem?
To solve the problem, we must be able to identify it clearly.