Let me get at a different point here. Criminality is something we'll address, perhaps, at a later date. I'm more concerned with plugging leaks of your reports, because it certainly undermines the confidence in your offices.
In the spring I wrote a letter to the Commissioner of the RCMP requesting that the RCMP look into this matter of leaks. I received a response from the commissioner, Mr. Zaccardelli, where he states:
Although I appreciate your concerns, you may wish to know that the RCMP will not undertake a formal investigation into these allegations unless the Auditor General of Canada makes a formal request to the RCMP for assistance.
I'm not quite sure he understands the relationship: that in fact you are an officer of Parliament; that you report to us. He seems to have misunderstood how this relationship flows. Fundamentally, it's our rights as parliamentarians that are undermined—your offices, but our rights as parliamentarians. Undermining your offices in fact undermines the work we're doing on behalf of Canadians.
Do you subscribe to Mr. Zaccardelli's logic here, that we have no right to request that the RCMP look into leaks of Auditor General's reports?