Thank you very much, Mr. Sweet.
Thank you, Mr. St-Jean.
That concludes the time we have allotted for this section, colleagues.
I want to take this opportunity to thank Monsieur St-Jean, Mr. Fonberg, Mr. Moloney, and of course Mr. Morgan. We weren't too hard on him today.
Again, if I can summarize this study that we're doing, it arises from some of the comments from Gomery and some of the issues we had to deal with. Just to clarify our own relationship between the public accounts committee and the Treasury Board Secretariat, basically we have very similar roles. The Treasury Board Secretariat is the oversight arm of the executive and we're the accountability arm of Parliament. Certainly if the thing is going to work properly, there has to be a very strong relationship between the Treasury Board and the Treasury Board Secretariat.
Also, with the reinstatement of the Comptroller General and your position, there are again a lot of issues that this committee is unclear about in terms of how your office will fit into the present arrangement, and also going forward with the expected enactment of the Federal Accountability Act. Again, as Mr. Williams quite rightly pointed out, we see that as a major change going forward, and we hope we're right.
Mr. St-Jean, just to conclude, we gave you four questions in writing, and we would like very clear answers. I don't think the committee would feel it's appropriate that the answers would be that these issues are under study. I think we'd like very definitive answers to these issues.