Public Safety committee  I'm not sure I follow the question.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, yes.

Public Safety committee  You would. Reacting to newspapers or gossip by unleashing a massive investigation is not what we do. We verify what it is we do. Information comes in. We accept any type of information that comes in. As I said earlier, we depend on everybody, on the general public. Public secur

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, if the situation causes concerns for us, absolutely.

Public Safety committee  That's possible.

Public Safety committee  Secure documents must not be shared with anyone, whether it's a person associated with organized crime or not. If that person has no qualification to see those documents, then they must not be shared.

Public Safety committee  Once again, Mr. Ménard, if such a situation is brought to our attention and causes us concerns, we will inform the Privy Council.

Public Safety committee  Just to go back, the security clearances are done—

Public Safety committee  I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability and to the best of my knowledge. Every department is responsible for its own security clearance proces. That's separate from the pre-appointment checks from PCO. Any department will do its own security clearance and its own securit

Public Safety committee  There may be, depending on the department, an agreement to conduct perhaps a CPIC inquiry on an individual. We would then respond back to the department and it would carry on with its own background checks. It would do its own interviews. It would do everything else that remains

Public Safety committee  Yes. We won't call the Prime Minister, but rather the Privy Council.

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, because the Privy Council is at the base of this entire process. It asks us to conduct the checks. So we report to the Privy Council, which made the request in the first place.

Public Safety committee  That's correct.