Mr. Chair, I'm not aware of the document. Could I see the document, please?
Mr. Chair, I don't recall seeing this document. But what it is is Ron Lewis asking me to go forward with unsolicited complaints from senior officers concerning the conduct of the former CHRO, Jim Ewanovich. It outlines a couple of the issues and it outlines consequences of inaction, etc.
Now, when Ron Lewis testified on Monday of this week, he talked of the fact that he and I had met extensively in my office, at which time I agreed with Ron Lewis that I could not carry out the functions as CHRO if the RCMP did not call for a criminal investigation. The next morning I told him that I would go in to speak with the commissioner and say exactly that, that we needed to have a criminal investigation called.
If this document were in my hands, it might have gone forward. I'm not in my office at the moment so I can't track it. But as Ron Lewis attested to himself, I did go back to the commissioner after our long meeting--with Ron Lewis--and say to the commissioner that I could not continue to function, and in fact it would be getting nowhere, if he didn't call a criminal investigation into this situation that was still bubbling up.
Mr. Chair, may I respond to both Mr. Frizzell's and Mr. Macaulay's comments, please?