Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thank you, Mr. Ferguson. I second the chair's initial words in thanking your for the enormous contribution you have brought to this committee in all of your reports. You've made us, as a committee, perhaps the most interesting committee in the House. I want to say that to my other colleagues, to tell them they don't know how much fun we're having here.
I also would like to go back to the line of questioning by my colleague Mr. Deltell, and to what my colleague Mr. Lefebvre was saying too.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I've had some public servants approach me, through Facebook of all things, to say that one of the big problems people in the public sector have or have had for a few years now is a total fear of going up to their superiors and telling them when things are not working exactly as planned. It seems to me that they are terrified of going up the hierarchy and announcing to their superiors that something is not going as planned.
Did your team of auditors find this? Were they told about this, or were impressions shared about this?