Thank you very much, Chair.
There is one more area I'd like to follow up on. In your opening remarks, in paragraph 19, you state:
Presently, management and other policies that government central agencies issue apply to officers of Parliament in the same way they apply to government departments and agencies. This is a concern to us and other officers of Parliament. It does not recognize the independence of officers of Parliament and the management autonomy needed to protect our independence.
Of course, the distinction between officers of Parliament and virtually everybody else is that you answer to the House as a whole, to Parliament. You don't answer to the government, and others do. If I'm understanding this, there are edicts being sent out, and your concern is that you're being expected to follow those—“you” being the officers of Parliament—and this is a concern.
Can you expand on that so that I can more fully understand what your concern is?