Mr. Zaccardelli, you're a proud former member of the RCMP. You've said that you're basically a man of action; you take decisive action. Your course of action two days after a criminal investigation was launched was one of action. You shut it down.
You heard from Mr. Macaulay. You were decisive, you took immediate action, and you had him removed from the RCMP. Now, you say that you did this to protect him. He begs to differ.
But others took your cue. Ms. Revine was constructively dismissed. Was she being protected the same way you were protecting Mr. Macaulay? Mr. Frizzell was removed from the investigation. Was he being protected? They thought they were being punished. Now, it appears that those who should be punished were being protected, and those who should have been protected were in fact being punished.
Mr. Zaccardelli, when a criminal investigation of one of your appointees, Mr. Ewanovich, gets launched, you shut it down. What were you fearful of?