Thank you, Mr. Chair, and again thank you to the witnesses for being here.
I just want to wrap up—in my view, at least—some of this discussion about the CDS and his authority and responsibility and so on. As you said, Admiral, the CDS does render his view on financial commitments; he just doesn't have the authority to write the cheque. Just to be clear—you alluded to this—the CDS is not an accounting officer; the deputy minister is an accounting officer. This marks a differentiation from the RCMP. The commissioner of the RCMP is in fact at a deputy level and therefore is an accounting officer. We can't just say that since the RCMP does it, the CDS can do it.
Is that a fair summary of the CDS's authority in that area?