Anybody who spends time with Sheila Fraser is having a good life. Come on.
I very much appreciate your being here because, in my view, you're probably the most trusted Canadian in the country. I think a lot of people rely on you to give them the straight goods.
I want to pick up on some very straightforward questioning. I'm sure you've been following the hearings at least somewhat. I have been finding it very troubling to see the way that the Chief Electoral Officer is being portrayed, at the very best as just a stakeholder and at worst as an enemy or opponent of the best electoral laws we have. Yet that position is equal to the one that you held as Auditor General in terms of being an agent of Parliament.
I'd like you to comment on the importance of the Chief Electoral Officer being seen in the same way that you were when you were the Auditor General—and that we currently see Mr. Ferguson—as a champion of the Canadian people, and not just some stakeholder who's trying to grab as much as they can out of it for themselves, which is the way the government is portraying the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada. Just your thoughts, Madam....