Thank you, Chair.
Human resources are one of the major assets of the federal government, and it is important that Parliament be informed of human resource management matters in a timely manner so that they know how well things are progressing, especially when you have new legislation like this that's come in, new expectations. So these reports are important. We note, of course, ourselves in the report that they were tabled some two years after the year-end, which we believe is too long. They should be more timely. I believe the 2007-08 report has now been tabled this year, but again, it would be two years, so there might be a question as well to the secretariat about why it takes so long and whether there are ways to accelerate the timeliness of those reports.