“Independence” means independence from government. It means that when we do our audits, we are independent from government. When the Parliamentary Budget Officer does his analysis, he is independent from government. The Library of Parliament is independent from government, so by de facto being an officer of the library, he is independent from government.
We could go into a longer discussion about that, but I don't think institutions have to be.... The environment commissioner does not have to be a separate institution to be able to be independent. They have independence by being part of the Office of the Auditor General.
With regard to the economic stimulus, yes, we are planning to do an audit of that. We will begin shortly and we will be looking at the spending as it occurs. We are hoping to report in fall of 2010.