Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for your presentation here today.
There are a couple of things I wanted to pick up on where Mr. Holland left off. He asked you a couple of questions pertaining to how you will challenge the government, how you will see behind the curtain. It sounds as if we're looking for a forensic investigation of the finances. Do you see that as your role?
I serve on the Standing Committee on Finance. One of the things we really struggle with sometimes is we have a lot of presentations in pre-budget. Most of them are un-costed, or the costs have been determined by means...we're not how they've arrived at the costs. The Department of Finance is obviously going through a very busy time because they're working on their own issues of costing the budget, putting the budget together, and the fall fiscal update.
One of the things I envision as your role is supporting some of the applications we see coming forward and providing independent cost analysis on some of the proposals we're seeing before finance. Is that how you see your role, or do you see it as being in opposition to the government of the day, whatever stripe that may be?