I have a couple of pointed questions, and I'd like to turn to Ms. Santi first.
You say toward the end of your brief, on page 2 of the English version, that:
The Commissioner, as a statutory officer within the Office of the Auditor General, has the same independence as the Auditor General herself. That is to say, the Commissioner, like the Auditor General, discharges his or her role independently of the Government of the day, and reports to the House of Commons. As an Agent of Parliament, the Office of the Auditor General performs an oversight function of the Executive and is accountable directly to Parliament for the manner in which it delivers on its legislative mandate.
From a machinery of government perspective, would you not agree that one of the fundamental differences between the Auditor General's position and the commissioner's position, as presently constructed, is that the Auditor General of Canada can fire the commissioner?