Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you for coming, my friends. It is always great to see you.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your parliamentary committee.
I would first like to talk to Mr. Shea, the assistant deputy minister in the Privy Council Office. Let us recall that the Privy Council Office is the Prime Minister's department. So it has to respond to specific mandates. The issue that interests us here is the leaders' debate, more specifically its new structure that the government is proposing. First of all, Mr. Shea, you said just now that the Rt. Hon. David Johnston had been suggested for the position, but that he has not yet started work.
My question will be quite simple. What is his power as a nominee, compared to when he will be the official director of this new mandate?