Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much to both our witnesses for being here today.
It's very helpful for us newer members of Parliament to understand so much more about how our government functions.
If my understanding is correct, the purpose of the Privy Council Office is not to oversee the Senate or to oversee the publicity; it is to provide the support—as do our clerks in our committee and our staff in our member of Parliament offices—to the work we carry out on a day-to-day basis.
In that light, and correct me if I'm wrong, when we're talking about the work you have to do in the creation of a non-partisan merit-based Senate appointment process, the instructions are coming from another body. Can you just explain to us how you receive and carry out your instructions?