I'll offer you several remarks. First of all, every report produced by the Auditor General is available to the government beforehand and every word in it is looked at by the government. The expectation is that by the time the Auditor General produces a report in public, there are no problems of questions of fact in it. However, what this means is that there are people within government who have read the report. One must not make the assumption that the leak came from the Auditor General's side. It could have come from the other side. There's an old adage that three people can keep a secret as long as two of them are dead. My impression is that at least three ministers had seen that report, plus their deputy ministers, plus people in the ministers' offices. I make no assumption that the leak came from the Auditor General. That's point number one.
Point number two is that if I remember correctly, and I believe this is correct, the Auditor General is an accounting officer under the Financial Administration Act and hence has an accountability relationship with Parliament like every other parliamentary agent. There is room for the committee there to review the Auditor General from the accounting officer perspective.
Apart from that, I would think that the committee should stay out of that whole issue because there might be a conflict of interest in it--an informal conflict of interest. I don't think it's a legal conflict, but it would be better for another committee to look at that one.