Public Accounts committee  First of all, I wasn't massaging information. Secondly, I was asked by the commissioner's office, so do you want me to tell him, “No, we don't want to have anything to do with this”? All we wanted to do was verify that there weren't any missing. If we had not done that, and he

Public Accounts committee  Yes, we wanted to make sure the report was complete, and that they were all there.

Public Accounts committee  There was never any intent of not—

Public Accounts committee  Yes, there were a number of signatures that we required within NCPC.

Public Accounts committee  No, sir.

Public Accounts committee  No, sir. Can I come back and make a point on the testimony just given? There was a really strong accusation here that I lied during those interviews. That's not true, sir. We had a disagreement, but it wasn't a lie. I mean, he has his version, and I have mine. This is not fair f

Public Accounts committee  Okay, there are two points. First of all, he was breaking the rules, yes, and we wanted to stop him so we put somebody in there. But he still insisted on doing what he wanted to do, so then we took his authority away. By doing that, his manager should have then taken the action

Public Accounts committee  Not very many.

Public Accounts committee  No, not that I recall.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  I think they did one report. But the issue there was—

Public Accounts committee  The report was that he just wasn't getting any better.

Public Accounts committee  Then we took his authority away.

Public Accounts committee  Human resources, that's where he worked. By taking his authority away, obviously they should have taken whatever actions—

Public Accounts committee  No, that was up to them to decide. But I can tell you that when we send people to Public Works, or when people go to Public Works, we expect Public Works to do their job.