Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My first question is for you, Ms. Oades. It concerns the procedures. You touched on this issue in your presentation.
I want to know whether the Parole Board followed the rules in place. For example, the investigation report doesn't propose that any recommendations be made to the Parole Board. Yet two of your board members, Janie Fortin and Joseph Lainé, had the authority to suspend Mr. Gallese's day parole and to request a re-assessment. They chose to keep an offender on day parole even though they were informed that he had committed at least three criminal acts against vulnerable women clients.
Isn't this a breach of the policy manual?