Public Accounts committee  Absolutely. I say inadvertent, and I also believe there were some mistakes in judgment and some mistakes in management. These issues were well known throughout the RCMP. One of the big problems from the inaction by the commissioner and senior management was that people in the RCMP knew about some of these goings-on, and they knew that things weren't being done about it.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, okay, and the report found that, as you know. But this was not because people were hiding things under the rug. These were all out in the open. It's just that the decisions that were being made were not appropriate in the circumstances.

Public Accounts committee  First of all, given my background, I'm a strong proponent of transparency as a securities regulator. I spent seven years advocating transparency and I feel very strongly about transparency. What I recommended in the report is that deliberations of the task force be conducted in private.

Public Accounts committee  Again, if I may, there were two points there. One was that the public is very interested in knowing the results of what we're doing. My intention is that as a result of the work of the task force, we will do analyses of what we've seen, we'll do analyses of what we see as best practices in other police forces around the world, and those will all be made public, as will a report of our recommendations.

Public Accounts committee  No, that was not part of our mandate and we did not look at that.

Public Accounts committee  There are several questions there. If I miss one of them, perhaps you could remind me at the end, and I'll try to circle back. First of all, with respect to the time period, it's true that we had only nine weeks, and it was really only eight weeks of operating time, because it took us a week to get organized and up and running.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I would.

Public Accounts committee  No, I don't, thank you, Chair. I'm aware that many people coming before you do start with opening comments. As I thought about what I might say to you, I couldn't really think of anything you didn't already know. Rather than summarize things in my report, which would have been a waste of your time, I thought we would simply launch into it and I would be prepared to take your questions.

Public Accounts committee  I don't think there was a preliminary draft of the entire report. We did it in pieces. As we found issues that we were comfortable with, we started the draft. Given the timeframe, if we'd waited until the end before turning out drafts, we probably wouldn't have got there. So there were various pieces done.

Public Accounts committee  If indeed they exist. This was all being done electronically, and as drafts were being done we were making changes, sometimes even on the screen, because we were working well into the night. I'll see what we've got.

Public Accounts committee  No.