Thank you for your question.
I talked a bit about preparation. We are already trying to see how quickly we could assess some of the costs presented to us. For example, budgetary measures will be used as the first step to check how we are operating. We could see how we can proceed within the office.
Access to information will be our second challenge, and I would say that I am increasingly seeing it as such. I mentioned that I was very happy and that it was very important for me that we remain within the House of Commons computer service parameter, which is very well protected. You will understand that, in the middle of an election period, there is the whole issue of fake news, real news and information manipulation.
We will have to protect political parties' confidential documents that have not yet been publicly submitted. I assume that parties will probably want to give them to us, so that we can make the announcements. I want that information to be extremely well protected. That is why we also met with people from the Communications Security Establishment, CSE, to see what they thought about this. They told us that it was an excellent idea to remain within the House of Commons computer parameter, with the Library of Parliament. They are overseeing that information themselves. That is one of the challenges we are facing.
We talk very regularly about another challenge within the office. You mentioned the legislation. It will be improved, but there is an issue in the legislation. In fact, when a political party asks the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer to assess the costs of a proposal, we will carry out that assessment confidentially, and that is a model we have not used so far. Our analyses are always open and transparent. We will now have to operate confidentially and give a political party's authorized representative the cost of their election proposal. Then I will have to wait for a written notice to be able to make the report public, as stipulated in the legislation.