Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Fraser, welcome to the committee. I'm reading the notes for your address and your statement of this afternoon, and I'd like to hear you comment in more detail on what's written on page 2 of your statement:
As I mentioned earlier, our role is to provide objective, fact-based information to parliamentarians to assist them in holding government to account. To preserve our credibility, we must remain independent of government and not stray into policy issues.
Has the government made any approach whatever to you that would lead you to suspect that Ms. Gélinas, or any other commissioner before her, infringed that duty of independence?