Thank you, Mr. Chair. By the way, you're not the only one who has taken this rarely travelled route. There are not many of us, but you are not alone.
Mr. Thomas, thank you for coming here. Your presentation is very interesting. I would like to talk about your comments regarding the Parliamentary Budget Officer. You are not the only one who has said that we could use the Parliamentary Budget Officer's knowledge to help us in our work.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has a role that, in my opinion, he fulfils very well. Would it not be a hindrance to him, so to speak, if we were to give him an additional mandate? Why not instead have some new Library researchers, who could be assigned to our committee in order to do research and provide the Parliamentary Budget Officer with a mandate that is a little clearer? Perhaps he could become an officer of Parliament. We need to clarify his role and mandate.