Well, I agree with Sandra. Certainly the role of the ethics advisor is not to protect the organization; it's to ensure that, at the end of the day, we do the right thing. Now, whether or not it was the internal disclosure on wrongdoing policy or the present act—and I haven't read the present act—I can only presume that it's not terribly dissimilar from what I was working with as a policy.
But if somebody came forward with an issue, it was my role to take it, before it went outside the organization, to the Public Service Integrity Office. My role was to ensure that we had done everything we possibly could have internally, with the structure and mechanisms in place to deal with the complaint. Following those best efforts, if I was unable to advise the individual who had come to me with the complaint that something was being done, then I encouraged them in fact to go to the Public Service Integrity Office.
So there was never a protectionist view, from my perspective. I was there to do the right thing at all costs, notwithstanding friendships and other things.