Public Safety committee  I'm aware of his letter of resignation, which I think referred to a date.

Public Safety committee  First of all, the review is being conducted by Foreign Affairs. They have hired a security firm—

Public Safety committee  —to help them in that.

Public Safety committee  The RCMP are called in for criminal investigations. At the moment, I'm not aware of any particular criminal issue related to the documents. The review will determine what the facts are, and that's what it's doing. I think we may well have suggested the assistance of some professional investigators in the effort to do that.

Public Safety committee  Let me make two points on that. First of all, the review is about the documents--what happened to the documents, who did what, who had access, what injury, and so on. Actually, on the injury assessment the RCMP wouldn't be very helpful, because it's not something they have expertise on.

Public Safety committee  If I could just add, that's one of the reasons for the review. You're quite right, there is concern about these documents. That's why there is a review being conducted.

Public Safety committee  The RCMP, CSIS.... I'm sorry, is your question which agencies or who in the Privy Council Office?

Public Safety committee  I'll refer to my opening statement. As I said, there's a four-part verification.

Public Safety committee  The first part is by the RCMP. The second part is by CSIS. The third part is tax compliance with regard to the Canada Revenue Agency. The fourth part is insolvency, which is in fact the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy.

Public Safety committee  There are background checks for all order in council appointees, many of whom come from ministers. But it's a two-way check, not a four-way check. They do the RCMP and CSIS. They don't do the other two. There may well be ministerial appointments that don't go through the order in council process, where they may or may not.

Public Safety committee  I believe she was an order in council appointee.

Public Safety committee  All order in councils have a two-way check done.

Public Safety committee  Well, I don't feel particularly passive these weeks.

Public Safety committee  I've described what we do in regard to background checks. I'm not sure I can answer any more than that.

Public Safety committee  I'm not going to engage in speculation, Mr. Ménard.