Information & Ethics committee  If the appropriate evidence is available....

Information & Ethics committee  She felt that it was inappropriate behaviour but not criminal.

Information & Ethics committee  I would say to that, Mr. Chair, that we follow the evidence. If the evidence warrants charges, we charge.

Information & Ethics committee  I do believe I said that the last time I was in front of the committee. No one is above the law.

Information & Ethics committee  No. I'd invite Mr. Pincince to add to this, but we approach every investigation in the same manner.

Information & Ethics committee  I can assure you that we have never been dictated to by a politician on how to do our job.

Information & Ethics committee  Not at all.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct. I might add that when the first article appeared in The Globe and Mail, I was the commanding officer of the national division. I actually reached out to sensitive and international investigations and said, let's monitor what's going on here because it might end up in our wheelhouse.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  That's correct.

Information & Ethics committee  If you look at the threshold for a criminal act, you need the right evidence to get the legal documents to allow you to do a production order or a search warrant to eventually lay the charges, if there are charges to be laid. I must say that the Ethics Commissioner does have power with regard to his ethics review.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll let Mr. Pincince discuss the interviews. It is five years old. The matter was brought to our attention in 2019 and officially concluded in January 2023. We notified Ms. Wilson-Raybould as well as Mr. Scheer, who had written a letter to Commissioner Lucki at the time.

Information & Ethics committee  He was not interviewed, Mr. Chair.

Information & Ethics committee  I'll ask Mr. Pincince, who was leading the investigation, to add a bit.

Information & Ethics committee  No.