We are part of the same administrative unit for reporting purposes and formally for administrative purposes. There was a proposal that was examined by the Honourable Mr. Gérard La Forest, who's a retired Supreme Court judge and one of the primary legal theoreticians of privacy rights in his judgments. He made a study of both our offices and concluded that it would not be a good idea. His report came out in November and is on our website.
So the government has gone ahead, and then funded us separately for the future, and has looked at our funding proposals. An all-party parliamentary committee reviewed our funding proposals last November, just at the end of the last Parliament, as separate entities.