Thank you, Madame Chair.
I'd like to welcome you, Mr. Harrison, especially as you're no longer in your previous position and you've made yourself available to this committee. So thank you for that.
I want to begin with your appointment and the functioning of the secretariat.
Of course the issue of accountability was a big issue during the last election. It was a key campaign promise by the Conservative Party. The Accountability Act was a centrepiece of this government's legislative initiatives, and the Accountability Act was passed with a number of amendments. Our party was involved in some of the amendments that we felt strengthened the Accountability Act, especially as it concerned the appointments process, to make the appointments more accountable to broader parliamentary oversight.
You were appointed in April 2006, and the Accountability Act was passed by the House of Commons in June. How did the passage of the Accountability Act change the work that you were doing in your position, if at all?