There's just one brief intervention from Ms. Sgro.
I'm going to ask the clerk to take a very aggressive tack to try to locate Mr. Smith. If there's anyone in the committee, of course, who has any facts or information that might assist the clerk, please contact the clerk, and we will certainly do everything in our power to locate him.
I should say, too, that we've had this problem before, on two other occasions, in locating former deputy ministers who had retired. We do not get any cooperation from the Minister of Public Works. They issue pension cheques, not to Mr. Smith but to the two previous deputy ministers, and they won't give us that information. They say it violates the privacy concerns.
Your points are all well taken, and we will be looking at this very aggressively.
Ms. Sgro.