Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again my congratulations to the Auditor General and of course to her staff for their work in keeping Parliament and the nation informed about issues regarding our public service.
It may be painful to some, but it's very much part of the democratic process to keep people on their toes when they know that the public accounts committee, the Auditor General, and indeed all Canadians are watching and expecting a good response from the work they do. We fully acknowledge that the vast majority of Canadian public servants are great people doing a great job, but you keep them on their toes, and that's great.
It's unfortunate that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police appearing before this committee are still in the news.
I'm looking at your chapter 7, paragraph 7.15, where you talk about how the justice and human rights committee of the Parliament of Canada heard testimony from two former RCMP staff members, casting doubt on statements made earlier by RCMP officials before the committee—a little bit of a déjà vu here. They made certain allegations about disputed evidence that had been given to the committee, and then I think you found that perhaps these allegations had some merit.
Did you interview the RCMP officials who had gone to the justice committee and provided this information to find out what answers they had, where the answers given to the justice committee did not tie in with the facts that you subsequently found?