Thank you, Chair.
I'm thankful that the NDP will consider calling these witnesses forward, witnesses that can provide us with key evidence that, unfortunately, we weren't able to dig into from the information the Auditor General was able to garner in her report.
What was quite worrisome in that report was that in fact you had millions of dollars, which she red-flagged, that went into the wrong pockets in the most inappropriate ways. She encountered a culture that made it very difficult for her to really dig into what transpired. We're talking about the pension insurance funds of the rank-and-file RCMP officers.
The two witnesses we'll have coming before us—the acting commissioner and the police chief—will only be able to take a look at what has remained in those particular files. They'll be briefed on it. Perhaps individuals here have gone through the Auditor General's report and been briefed. They might in fact even have more information than the two witnesses we've called. These particular witnesses will allow us the opportunity—we'll have two hours for this—to call other people forward so we can get at more of the details.
You referenced that this is legitimately within our scope of work. You referenced sponsorship—