Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chairman, on November 28, 2007, I received a letter from this committee inviting me to appear here today to address concerns members had about testimony I had given on February 21, 2007. The letter stated that I was being given an opportunity to explain my testimony and provi

Public Accounts committee  Thank you. The letter stated that I had been given an opportunity to explain my testimony and provide a full and unequivocal response to any concerns that might exist. The spirit of the letter, as well as other informal assurances given, clearly suggested that the committee woul

Public Accounts committee  Assistant Commissioner LaFosse was not in a position—

Public Accounts committee  —of power to remove anybody, nor was I. And I did call Assistant Commissioner—

Public Accounts committee  I made a request to have his behaviour stopped. I needed somebody to speak with him. These are my recollections.

Public Accounts committee  I cannot give you a yes or no answer. This was two years ago. With all due respect, I was very concerned about the people, and when I spoke with Assistant Commissioner Rogerson, I needed someone to speak with Sergeant Frizzell.

Public Accounts committee  I can still tell you that today. It was neither of us.

Public Accounts committee  When I arrived there he had been reporting to another chief superintendent, so he was already on the spot. He was an inspector and he was doing a lot of support work for the two superintendents who were in officer staffing at the time. He was doing a lot of excellent work, but it

Public Accounts committee  Well, no, he reported—

Public Accounts committee  That is correct.

Public Accounts committee  No. What I requested, I told him about, very briefly, because our conversation lasted, as he said, less than a minute. I said that I was having a lot of difficulty listening to complaints of harassment and that this had to be stopped. Now, if Mr. LaFosse, with all due respect,

Public Accounts committee  I will gladly speak to it, sir. Thank you for the opportunity. As we've all heard from Chief Superintendent Lang and others, there was a lot going on at that time. I think it was Chief Superintendent Lang who clarified that it was Inspector Gork who worked with him to write the

Public Accounts committee  You should have this document because it outlines everything from Inspector Roy's perspective on the difficulties he had in dealing with Sergeant Frizzell right up until the very end. It's all there.

Public Accounts committee  I'm sorry. This was put in on Friday. I just received it myself this afternoon. It's a very interesting read, and I think it lays out all the revelations that you need to have. As I've said before many times at this committee, when Ms. Burton came to me and discussed her alarm a

Public Accounts committee  I have two answers for you. One came from the document that—