Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank the witnesses for being here today.
I would like to quickly go back to the matter of the Parliamentary Budget Officer's work plan, which should be submitted to the speakers of both chambers. I certainly heard your arguments that it's a matter of getting everyone's agreement on the work plan.
However, I have several questions. You say you want to make the position of Parliamentary Budget Officer an independent position. To make it independent, you want to turn it into an officer of Parliament. However, no other officer of Parliament is required to have his or her work plan approved.
If you are copying the operating model of the officers of Parliament, why did you decide that, for the first time, an officer of Parliament would have to submit the work plan to the speakers of both chambers, while the others aren't required to? Why this difference between the obligations imposed on officers of Parliament, who will not have to meet the same requirements under the act?