If I read what's given to me today, it would appear to be an honest mistake of misinterpretation being proposed by the RCMP as to why the discrepancy occurred. In fact, in the letter to the chair, the commissioner had said: “Let me state emphatically that at no time was there an intent to mislead the Committee.”
By the way, Mr. Chairman, has this been entered into the record of the committee, the fact that the chair received a letter from the commissioner? If not, it will be part of the record.
Madam Fraser, do you feel it was, in essence, an oversight for lack of clear and specific guidelines, or do you feel it's more serious than that?