Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
We're a bit disjointed, as my colleague said, because of some of the changes, but also the agenda we were provided with was more for TBS and expenditure management, so there was a bit of confusion in terms of the role. I'm absolutely prepared to talk about all those issues and have the dialogue with the committee today on those points.
Maybe I could start by saying that as you know, the Office of the Comptroller General was reinstated two years ago; in fact, it was in June 2004, when I took the position. It's also true that there's no common definition of what an office of a comptroller general is in Canada. I had the same discussion with all my colleagues across the provinces; there's no single definition of the scope and responsibilities of an office of a comptroller general.
The same can also be said of my colleagues.