Thank you for your question. Today is an opportunity to begin this dialogue with the various members. As I said in my presentation, we have gone through various stages in developing our office. One stage involves consultations, but this will not be completed today. We need to continue.
As I said in my presentation, working on the Hill in this capacity is very different; it's a big learning curve for me. Working with members in the House and in the Senate is something I'm really looking forward to doing in this sort of dialogue. And I hope I have the right personality—I certainly have the energy—to maintain a constant dialogue.
Since my arrival--the appointment was on March 25--pretty much on a daily basis I've had a chance to have dialogue with various members of the House and the Senate. I've only recently started dialogue with various deputy ministers in departments with respect to establishing protocols of information. I met with the chief statistician at Statistics Canada, and I met with the Deputy Minister of Finance only yesterday. That process will continue, but I wanted to move to this process of consultations with you folks in committees and members of the House and Senate first.