Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you both for your attendance this morning.
Starting from the structure, help me understand how you currently deal, and previously dealt, with the issue of wrongdoing, for instance. Someone comes forward under the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act. Part of your responsibilities now, Assistant Commissioner, would be to provide advice to employees who are considering disclosing wrongdoing.
Normally wrongdoing is not something that helps the organization in question; it's going to be negative. As part of the senior ranks, you are ultimately answerable to the commissioner and officers above you, and their primary concern—beyond the public interest, of course—is always the interests of the institution of the RCMP, and rightly so. But somebody coming forward has interests in exactly the opposite direction, and you might be asked to give advice.
How do you deal with the potential conflict of advising an individual on what the steps are for disclosing potential wrongdoing, which could do harm, and your line responsibility back to the commissioner to protect the RCMP?