I particularly appreciate the focus on one of our five program objectives, which of course is commissions of inquiry.
If you look back into the work that PCO has done over the past number of years, we have supported the establishment and operation of a number of commissions of inquiry, and as I stated in my opening remarks, the last one finished just this last calendar year with Justice Cohen submitting his report at the end of October. The commission then took a couple of months to wind down.
Presently, we have no commissions of inquiry in our work plan, in our estimates process, or in the RPP, and that's what we have reflected in the documents we put before you. However, should the government make a decision that it wished to establish a commission of inquiry, it's part of the Privy Council Office's mandate to support that decision. We would respond accordingly. That would be an in-year decision, and any resources that would be required to support that would have to go through the expenditure management process, including the estimates process, therefore coming before this committee before they would be approved.