Thank you.
So when an investigator sees this line from an assistant commissioner, then, from what you've just said, he would have seen that as direction.
When I take a look at the timeline here, that's February 9 of 2005. The memorandum of understanding between the Ottawa police and the RCMP was signed by three people--Chief Bevan, Deputy Commissioner Loeppky, and Inspector Paul Roy. It was ten months after the start of the investigation that it was finally signed. Deputy Commissioner Loeppky signed it on February 8.
And point 3.1, which lays out the status and position of the investigation, states:Inspector Paul Roy will be assigned as Case Manager to the RCMP Investigation. For the duration of the investigation, Inspector Paul Roy will report directly to A/Commissioner D. Gork.
It makes it clear, in the memorandum of understanding, that the chief investigator is told to report directly to you, not to Chief Bevan. And Chief Bevan signed off on it, the deputy commissioner signed off on it, and Inspector Roy signed off on it.
So you were in fact--