Thank you, Madam Chair.
I am pleased to see that you will have to stay independent of the Auditor General. You will be able to table reports in Parliament, with no hindrance from the ministers or departments. You will have the power to see that problems raised are disclosed to the public and that voters, politicians, and the media can find out about them in the course of your investigations of public servants' complaints. It gives you a great deal of independence. That's something that never existed in government before.
I would like to know the powers investigators in your office will have. First of all, will they be hired by you, rather than by the government?