The formal question is, where's the independence there? The study should be on the impact of the government's Canada child benefit on families across the board.
If an MP, for example like myself, says that he or she wants you to study a specific thing, I think that blurs it, because I would send you families where I know the answer is going to be in my favour and not what's in the best interests of the country, which is probably bad in terms of parliamentarians.
I think the PBO should push back in that instance to say that you will do the study, but you will pick the assumptions, and you will pick the families that you're going to do the analysis on. That would maintain the office's independence, in my opinion.