Thank you, Mr. Chair. That's a good foray into what I was about to ask.
Thank you, all of you, for appearing today.
I notice in your reports that one of the key responsibilities of the Public Service Commission is to ensure integrity and non-partisanship in staffing. If you are doing the staffing, and given that the Parliamentary Budget Officer does not report directly to Parliament but through the Public Service Commission, a number of allegations and concerns have been raised about the process of the hiring of the PBO, and suggestions made that the process may have been politicized.
I'm wondering why the interview panel has not been made public to try to bring some integrity back into that very highly contentious hiring process.