I'd be glad to.
Whenever the Treasury Board issues an administrative policy, it applies to us as it would to any department. Within those policies there are, on occasion, roles for ministers or central agencies that are inappropriate for an officer of Parliament. One example we use is that any hospitality expense over $5,000 a minister has to approve. The largest hospitality expense we have is for our lock-ups for journalists during our tabling. It would be inappropriate for a minister to say yes or no to us having a lock-up.
There were other conditions. The communications policy was one that we raised last year. Under that policy I would have to provide all of our communications strategies, all of our press releases, all of my statements to the Privy Council Office before delivering them.