Thank you very much, Mr. Sweet. Thank you Staff Sergeant Lewis.
That concludes, colleagues, the first round.
We're going to go to the second round. It's going to be a little abbreviated, although we can go into the bells for a few minutes, I suppose.
I have one question to you, Assistant Commissioner Gork.
This situation is very complicated, and it's complex. It seems to me that we're dealing with a cover-up. A lot of times it's like Watergate; the cover-up is worse than the crime. It's getting such that I'm scared that the next person to walk through that door is going to be the ghost of Richard Nixon.
The bottom line is that we've had a horrendous situation, and there's been malfeasance at the highest level. There's been $3.1 million--and I'm just going to be very succinct--that had to be repaid by the RCMP. And you say it's the RCMP, but it's really the taxpayers of Canada. There's been a lot of fairly substantiated allegations of wrongdoing. Whether this wrongdoing was criminal, whether it was civil or administrative, the bottom line is that nobody in the RCMP has been sanctioned criminally or civilly. There's been no action to get the money back. There's been nobody administratively sanctioned. Nobody has lost their job, no one has been suspended, no one has gotten a written reprimand. It's almost as if this was a bad dream, that it didn't happen. It just didn't happen. That's how the RCMP is treating it.
This hearing today is televised. What do you say to the Canadian taxpayers?