Thank you both for your presentations and the work that you're doing.
Mr. Vaughan, could I ask you for a little bit more elaboration? I don't want to paraphrase, but it sounded as though you didn't think there was potential for duplication in the potential new role being contemplated for the Office of the Auditor General. I wonder if you could give us a little bit more of the “whys” of that.
In other words, I think the intent of the legislation--maybe the drafter can speak to it in her round—is independence, and an independent opinion about how well that's being done. We all know there are various other efforts and onuses on federal government deputy ministers. There's a ministerial directive, and there's the new sustainable development, but I think the general context for this bill is that we've not succeeded as much as people would like us to have.
So could you address that, maybe just briefly for us, to give us a little bit more of the practical part of that?