Government Operations committee  That said, I'm a bit concerned about it.

Government Operations committee  Sorry, you may have lost us halfway through your question.

Government Operations committee  It's unlikely that party B would say wrongdoing has been done because it likely wouldn't fall within the definition of wrongdoing here. In all likelihood, the confidentially associated with this program protects the people involved when it is found that party B has not been a wro

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I'm not sure which report you are referring to. I'm not sure whether I have a copy.

Government Operations committee  It's the Secretariat's report, fine. In response to your first question about the total number of disclosures handled, it's the total number of disclosures received and handled, whether they are founded or not. They are simply received and handled. That does not show whether or

Government Operations committee  It shows a certain consistency. That's what I was trying to explain earlier. It is one of our indicators. If that number was always going up or down, it would mean that something's wrong.

Government Operations committee  The system is so broad that there should be consistency in the numbers. We are reassured when we see that the pattern is constant. It varies between 287 and 385. You also wanted explanations about the disclosures received that were not acted upon. That includes the cases that w

Government Operations committee  That is an excellent question, but they never do come to us. As the office of the chief human resources officer, we do not receive complaints, so we're not in a position to be able to answer that. I would ask that you reserve that question either for senior officers, if they come

Government Operations committee  We aggregate results. However, at the front end when it comes in, it comes to the direct supervisor, to the senior manager in the department, or to the commissioner's office. At that point, they would view what you just asked and say whether it falls within this or not. Unfortuna

Government Operations committee  Yes. The information that we've been referring to throughout this committee hearing, and that I was pointing to before, in fact is information that comes from all the departments and all the senior officers. This captures the whole environment of what happens in wrongdoing.

Government Operations committee  When it comes to reprisal, the reprisals only go to the commissioner. Again, we have the wrongdoings, but the reprisals only go to the commissioner. That is going to be an excellent question for the commissioner, and I'm sure that the commissioner will be in a better position t

Government Operations committee  We have to extrapolate a bit from the numbers that we have here with regard to the total number of disclosures handled or the total number received. Then, as you can see, the numbers drop significantly. The delta usually is what I've referred to before, which is that it wasn't wr

Government Operations committee  I'll ask Mary Anne to speak to the process.

Government Operations committee  Okay, that's a bit of a different question. Your second question as I understood it was, can you open the definition of reprisal? It's currently very broad. It captures just about anything that's done to it. Your third question, which I understand is, what happens when someone i

Government Operations committee  Sorry, the person isn't the discloser, but reprisal is happening.