Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the witness for appearing today on very short notice.
Because I wasn't anticipating this coming forward, I'm just going to go to a couple of things that jumped out at me. The first was the Public Appointments Commission Secretariat. That's not an active secretariat. That's been, obviously, a point of some contention before this committee. There was an attempt to appoint somebody, but the committee disagreed with that and the government simply hasn't followed it up.
I'm trying to understand. When I look at the ministry's summary for the Public Appointments Commission Secretariat, the estimates for 2007-08 are over $1 million, and then again, in 2008-09, over $1 million. I'm wondering if you could explain that, given that it's not an active secretariat.