Great. Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to also thank the witnesses for coming forward and making their presentation.
I've gone through the estimates, and I must say, it wasn't easy to go through them all. I had a series of issues concerning them, but I will restrict myself just to basic issues of Treasury Board. I realize that different critics in different committees will be dealing with different parts of the estimates, so I'll leave those up to them.
But on the issue of Treasury Board, on page 89 of the supplementary estimates there is funding, I think over $3 million, for a centre of regulatory expertise within the Treasury Board Secretariat. Part of this centre is supposed to ensure compliance with the commitments and directions set out in, I presume, the implementation of cabinet directives.
I just want to know a little about the history of this centre and what it's supposed to do. I'm also a little confused about this explanation, because it talks about ensuring compliance with the commitments and directions set out in the directives. I thought that was always the role of the Treasury Board, so why do we need a centre to comply with directives when it was always the role of the Treasury Board to comply with the directives?