Deputy Commissioner Sweeney was appointed the appropriate officer, which is the process followed when a formal discipline process is initiated under the RCMP Act. He made a determination based on his evaluation of the evidence as to whether there were sufficient grounds to proceed to adjudication. In his opinion there were not sufficient grounds to proceed; therefore, he withdrew the allegations. My role then was to deal with the consequences of the fact that there was no longer a disciplinary process pending, and to reinstate Deputy Commissioner George. I made a number of decisions in relation to that.
Frankly, the question of reinstatement was not a terribly difficult one, because the bases on which the suspension had been made were no longer in existence. So the question for me really was whether or not she would go back to her previous position as the deputy commissioner for human resources.