They didn't put up roadblocks as such. There was just no support for what I was doing, the difficulties that I faced. I talked about it in my annual reports for years and tried to talk to members of Parliament as well. The government did not support the commission, and it wasn't just the government. I also spoke to other members of Parliament to try to get some support, because it was very difficult, and I just never got any.
A lot of what was happening.... You know now what happened with former Commissioner Zaccardelli and everything that led up to it. Because I was dealing with complaints on a daily basis and was dealing with the commissioner on a daily basis for all kinds of reasons, it was clear that something was going to explode. I didn't know when, but I knew it would. A lot of what I did was to try to prevent that from happening by talking about it in my annual report—not explicitly, but talking to the government explicitly and talking to some members of Parliament about it. I was hoping that somehow or other somebody would have the courage somewhere along the way to tell the RCMP “enough already”, before things exploded.