Generally speaking, we work in partnership with departments when there are any issues. As you can imagine, we are a very small organization. We technically don't have line responsibility. Ultimately, ministers are responsible and accountable for their portfolios and the GICs and their portfolio agencies. That's very clearly laid out in the government's open and accountable government.
We wanted to understand a little bit more about the nature of the problem. I think, in fairness to the complainants, they had been looking for a hearing of their issues. We wanted to make sure that we were directing them to the right spot. As I said, once we understood that the issues were about not just HR management but governance and probity, we then referred that very quickly to our colleagues at ISED.
There was also a matter of confidentiality that we wanted to respect. I think the complainants had some concern, and have been public about that, over reprisals. We wanted to handle it quite judiciously in terms of making sure they had a proper hearing of the issues they were raising, if that's helpful.