That's wonderful.
Before we rise, thank you, everyone. I look forward to working with everyone. We'll be a bit more organized, although we keep things pretty informal in this committee.
Technically, you can't do friendly amendments, but when we have general consensus, we will, in order to keep things friendly and keep things moving quickly.
I forgot to thank a special person who is a very good friend of the committee. I was watching Senate finance committee, because I don't have a life, and they put through a motion praising Mr. Giroux, the Parliamentary Budget Officer. They endorsed renewing his mandate as the PBO, because it expires on September 2. We're not going to get an opportunity to see Mr. Giroux come in before then, so I wanted to thank him on behalf of the committee for all his work.
I jokingly teased that George Martin was the fifth member of The Beatles and Mr. Giroux was the 12th member of OGGO. He was always available to us. Sometimes we called him with only a couple of hours' notice to appear at the committee. I saw him spar with every member of this committee, whether Liberal, Bloc, NDP or Conservative. I certainly didn't always agree with his analyses, but I always thought they were very thorough, very non-partisan and very straightforward.
Mr. Giroux, if you're watching, because I know you watch OGGO—who doesn't?—thank you very much from the committee. You're a fantastic friend of the committee. I appreciate all the work you've done for us.
Go ahead, Mrs. Block.