Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for coming today to answer our questions. I would like to ask Mr. Elliott a question, if I may. To avoid slipping up, I am going to refer to some people by name.
On February 8, a few weeks ago, Mr. Souccar met with the committee to discuss the internal conflicts you are experiencing at the RCMP. He told us that your behaviour towards several officers was disrespectful. He received complaints, not in writing but verbally, from those people. He also told us that your disrespectful behaviour had continued throughout your entire mandate. So it wasn't something new. He specifically said this: "Three years later, with nothing changed and his behaviour getting worse by the day, it boiled over and resulted in the situation that we found ourselves in this past summer." He then added that the "RCMP needs to become better, stronger, more transparent". So that means that, for him, the RCMP is still not better or more transparent. A little farther on, he talks about a "recommendation made in 2007 by the task force on governance and cultural change in the RCMP". And he said this: "I dare say that if a board of management had been in place, this whole affair of last summer would not have happened."
If I'm not mistaken, you were appointed in 2007, Mr. Elliott. Is that correct?