I'll speak to my own experience. It was very fast and occurred over the Labour Day weekend.
I was contacted by the Prime Minister's Office, and they asked if I would be willing to serve on an interim basis. My immediate response was that I knew someone who was really qualified, who was going to be unemployed on Wednesday, and who would definitely be an incredibly talented interim Parliamentary Budget Officer, and that person was Mr. Yves Giroux.
There was silence on the other end of the phone line from the Prime Minister's Office. At that point, I indicated to the Prime Minister's Office that if I were to take the job to fill in for a set period of time, then I would continue to do everything that Mr. Giroux had been doing up to that point. There would be no change in terms of the focus on excellence and transparency in the office and the frequency of reporting, and the Prime Minister's Office said that they expected no less.
Yes, definitely, if you receive a phone call on a Saturday night over a long weekend from someone purporting to be from the Prime Minister's Office, it might actually be real. I tell my kids not to take those phone calls, but....