I agree, Chair, that this is very upsetting. It is very troubling to me that this is continuing. I can perhaps say some of the things that we have done. We have, obviously, gone through our normal review. We've also requested the RCMP to review our procedures over physical control of documents to see if they had any recommendations, which they did not.
We continue to believe that the journalist did not have a copy of the actual report, that in fact much of the information there could have been obtained from the CITT challenge, that one of the bidders.... But that being said, we will never know for sure.
The Treasury Board has...but you see, the direct quote can be...somebody being interested in passing on information without actually giving over a copy of a report.
Our focus tends to be very much on physical control over the documents. What we have done, though, with the Department of Public Works, is we have asked them to change their procedures with us, which they've agreed to do. The reports will go to the liaison person we have with them--a limited number. They will not be circulated within the department. People will have to actually go to that person's office to consult the report, and if necessary we will have to extend that to other departments.
Finally, the Treasury Board Secretariat has indicated that they will be conducting a review. I don't know where that review is at, though.