Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you for coming today.
Mr. Ferguson, I don't want to say you have big shoes, but you have important shoes to fill. I know that it's a learning curve for you to come here.
Part of the process at this committee is to look at what other provinces are doing, so I thought it was excellent that someone with your experience would come here. Now we know a little bit about the New Brunswick experience.
Just so I'm absolutely clear, as the Auditor General, or the auditor's office, the date of our fiscal year-end is not an important issue for you—whether it's April 1 or whether it's June 1—as long as we have one, of course. The actual date the Government of Canada chooses is not an important issue to you as the auditor. Would that be an accurate statement?