As I explained in previous sessions in this committee, I am the chief financial officer. However, I am not responsible for every responsibility centre within the RCMP. As a matter of fact, we have 2,732. This was one of them. Therefore, it was not possible for me to know everything that was going on in the whole organization. And in this case, I think we've heard today a lot of evidence that there were problems within CAC. CAC has been there for many, many years—30, 40 years. Problems like this never surfaced before, that I know of. So the fact that he was going there and he was going to Public Works, and Public Works has a very good reputation in terms of contracting, we thought now they will do contracting as it should be. Unfortunately, we heard what we heard today and it wasn't so.
On May 7th, 2007. See this statement in context.