Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Before proceeding to my questions, I want to provide the committee with a brief notice of motion. I've been hearing a great deal of concern about the unequal treatment of British pensioners in Canada, and I'd like to give notice of the following motion to be discussed by the committee at a later date.
The motion is as follows:
That the committee report to the House its concern that British state pensioners in Canada are treated differently from state pensioners in many other countries, and call on the Government of Canada and the Government of the UK to work together on fixing the situation to provide equal treatment for British pensioners living in Canada.
Having said that, I'll proceed to my questions.
Thank you very much for being here.
I want to start by asking a question about the CMHC's independence.
I appreciate that you're offering views on various housing policy questions and I appreciate that you have a role of independent operation, but is it fair to say that in this type of forum, you're not going to directly contradict or oppose government policy? If I ask you if you disagree with or agree with government policy, you probably won't answer that so directly if the true answer is that you disagree. Is that fair to surmise?