Thank you, Chair.
This is just to say, first of all, I'm very glad to see that motion passed. I will say Ms. Shanahan's comments are totally incorrect, and I think they ignore Ms. Daly's testimony. She made very serious allegations about intimidation of her as part of an internal government process, a process that clearly is compromised and subject to criticism. After hearing those two hours of testimony, for Ms. Shanahan to say that we should just trust the internal process doesn't make much sense to me.
We're parliamentarians. Our job is to hold government accountable, and that's what the passage of this motion, which clearly had the support of the opposition and, in the end, passed unanimously, allows us to do: get to the bottom of what happened.
To the Ethics Commissioner, thank you very much again for being here.
Clearly, there are major ethical issues involved in the arrive scam scandal. You've talked about your jurisdiction and that it is applying to certain people and not others. I just want to dig into that.
Some of the facts we have heard at this committee, as well as at the government operations committee, are serious allegations about Minh Doan deleting emails, as well as a conflict of interest issue involving Mr. David Yeo, who was a contractor while he was working for the government. He was essentially double dipping.
We have dug further into that. We have looked for further information about this practice of people double dipping as government employees and as contractors. We put forward a motion calling for the end of this double dipping and it passed with the support of all opposition parties, although Liberals opposed that.
Could you help us understand whether or not these issues involving David Yeo and the double-dipping questions, as well as the deletion of emails allegations involving Minh Doan, would fall under your jurisdiction to deal with, and why or why not?