Hon House Chair, may I remind the hon member that the whistle-blower policy is actually a policy of government as a whole, and it is being implemented.
In fact, we would probably not have known about the case under discussion if somebody had not written a letter to alert us of this. That is why we are investigating it. The same applies to the activities at the board level. We were informed by people, and we were able to follow it up because they wrote to us.
The open-door policy is what is applied throughout - in my office, in the director-general's office and the Deputy Minister's office, and all over. We also continuously hold meetings with employee representatives, and they also meet with our special advisors, where it is necessary to do so, and they have done so previously. These are just some of the incidents I am referring to in order to illustrate the open-door policy that we have in action, not just in theory. Thank you.