Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the committee.
My friend Mr. Ménard is generally very non-partisan, and I appreciate his comments. But with respect to his comment about the will of the particular government today, I'd like to ask a couple of questions that might illustrate that these have been long-term—they haven't only occurred in the last three years—and issues have been raised.
Ms. Heafey, you indicated that you were involved for eight years as complaints commissioner and that during that time you brought a number of these issues before members of Parliament and before ministers. I think your suggestion was that nothing changed; that, as a matter of fact, perhaps roadblocks were put up. You indicated that you went to the court on at least two occasions.
Maybe this is an unfair question to ask, because you've been gone since 2005, but I think it's fair to say that this government has not put up any roadblocks. And maybe the other argument would be that changes have occurred—and I'm convinced they have, when I read what the RCMP have sent to this committee as their response to the O'Connor report, which I'm not sure my colleagues may have read entirely yet—but you spent eight years with a previous government, which you indicated did put up roadblocks.