That did not change our work in any way. Our mandate is still the same. We still functioning at arm's length to the CEO, to the director of public prosecutions, and to the government. In that way, things have not changed.
However, there were negative consequences at the administrative level. It has become more difficult to keep up to date with regard to what is happening at Elections Canada. There have been a lot of personnel changes and we lost the contacts we had before among Elections Canada representatives. When we conduct an investigation, it is important to be able to communicate with those contacts to obtain answers quickly. I assume that the fact that we lost those contacts may diminish our ability to react to crisis situations during elections.