Thank you, sir, for joining us today. I, too, have read your resumé, and I'm impressed by the breadth of your experience and knowledge and by the fact that you have played hockey for Jean-de-Brébeuf and the University of Montreal. I note in one of your comments that you escorted my former law partner, Mr. Williams, who was also a hockey player with Vancouver. We at least share one thing in common: we both attended the University of London to do a master's degree in law.
I, too, am impressed that you would be willing to undertake this important work.
I have a couple of questions about how you see the function of reporting to the minister. I know with the annual report we have in front of us, the most recent one written by your predecessors, there's an appendix B, with a list of 55 classified reports to the minister on various things. I'm assuming you would have access to them.
How are these reports different from the report to the minister that's made public? If, for example, as I see here, one of your obligations is to report to the minister on perhaps deficiencies in compliance with the legislation, where does that lead? If you tell the minister that some individual in CSE hasn't complied with the act in this and that or the other case, what happens then? Do you see any further responsibility, as commissioner, if nothing happens as a result of that? How do you see your role in these circumstances?