Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I think your office must be one of the best-kept secrets in Ottawa, and I gather I'm not the only one who thinks that. So I have a bunch of questions, but could you keep your responses short, because I only have five minutes.
You are an officer of Parliament, is that correct? I'm thinking about a multi-year performance audit, let's say, such as on climate change, and that covers many departments. You're obviously talking about these informal mechanisms that you have—and I'd be surprised if there weren't any—of information going back and forth to departments, so they roughly know what's coming. But as an officer of Parliament, you have to report to Parliament, and that's when it gets into the political domain. It's not always a question of simply facts and technical matters. Those might be feeding the political process, so parliamentarians need to have a handle on this as well.
So how do you decide? Do you have interim reporting? It's fine for the departments to know what you're saying, but parliamentarians want to know as well, so how do you decide when to cut it off and do an interim report, etc.?