Thank you, Mr. Chair.
When I followed this issue at the beginning, I thought that would be the end of it, frankly. We heard from everybody and they looked like they had a pretty thorough investigation. What bothered me throughout it was the fact that they had Ottawa police investigating it and they had 15 RCMP officers, if I recall the number, working along with this investigation. Those things never make any sense when you have the police investigating the police.
With all due respect to everybody, I have the utmost respect for the RCMP, the Ottawa police, and everybody who works in that particular job market. What bothered me was that the individuals who were named here as participants all ended up on health leave or one thing or the other. I think we owe it to them, since we had that initial hearing, to have one more meeting with them here.
Part of our job in public accounts is not to go on witch hunts, for sure. I'm not interested in that. But we have to make sure everything went the way it was supposed to go. It just left me with the feeling from these individuals, who all ended up on sick leave—It's a gnawing, bothersome thing to me, and I think we should be taking the next step and spending one more meeting to listen to these people.