There are two questions on the work you will be doing. You mentioned one in the mandate, and there's one I have some difficulty with, and that's estimating the financial costs of proposals introduced by a member of either House. I would have thought, sir—and colleagues—that the initial work of estimating the cost associated with a private member's bill or motion would be to the government, and your role would have been to assess the government's evaluation or estimate of costs.
I would hope we would not, by creating the officer we have created whose chair you occupy, be doing the work of the government.