Information & Ethics committee  I've withdrawn. It's a complicated situation, but no, I have said that I was not applying for—

Information & Ethics committee  That's a bit of a question. I'm struggling to get as many completed as I can. I've put one out within the last couple of weeks, and my aspiration is to finish the ones that I'm in the middle of.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. There are two examinations and one inquiry, and there's one examination on hold, on suspension, because of the requirement. It's still in the legal system. That's in regard to Mr. Carson. That has been suspended for about five years now. The other three are what I have left.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, or three really.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't expect that one to be resolved quickly.

Information & Ethics committee  No.

Information & Ethics committee  There's no capacity for one.

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. I think it's unfortunate. For example, that investigative report work is similar, in a sense, to the judicial system and the judicial requirements. Most statutes, and some that aren't even judicial that are similar to mine, have a provision in their legislation that allows

Information & Ethics committee  —provision in my act.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm no longer—

Information & Ethics committee  —authorized to deal with it.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm trying to finish them.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, the only thing then is an interim appointment again, I guess, to finish them up. I don't know when a new person will be identified, either. I don't have any idea how the process is proceeding.

Information & Ethics committee  Well, let me put it this way: I'm willing to complete those files.

Information & Ethics committee  I don't have the power to do that. Those rules are simply Prime Minister's rules. They were Mr. Harper's rules as well, and the Prime Minister has changed them slightly.