Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses.
I'd like to build on Mr. Albas' points, as well as Madame Pauzé's, concerning the independence and objectivity that comes with the Office of the Auditor General.
I'm vice-chair of the public accounts committee and have had many interactions with the Office of the Auditor General as well as with the commissioner of sustainability. In both cases, they're the scorekeepers. They're really almost divorced from policy but are asking what the result of the policy is. It's to keep those functions separated.
Mr. Lindgren, I think you were heading down the road of having some type of advisory body or some group that actually looks at the policy, vis-à-vis having those with the measuring sticks say whether policy is effective or not.
Could you comment on external bodies, such as the Impact Assessment Agency or others, that could advise government on policy and on having measurements come through the Office of the Auditor General?