This is a rather particular situation, because it is dealing with an officer of Parliament. The central agencies--the Treasury Board Secretariat, Privy Council Office, and others--that will do monitoring through government departments and agencies are actually very respectful of the independence of officers of Parliament--and we remind them of our independence quite frequently--so they do not do the kinds of monitoring that may be done for departments and agencies. As Mr. Christopherson mentioned earlier, I will be meeting with my colleagues, the officers of Parliament, in early January, and we will be looking at how we can give better assurance to parliamentarians with regard to how our offices are being managed, the quality of the work we're doing, and whether we are fulfilling our mandates.
I think there's already a lot of information available, but we will need to have, I think, a discussion with parliamentarians regarding how best to give you that assurance. Again, are parliamentary committee meetings the best place for that accountability or is there some other mechanism? We have the panel that was set up for funding; that might be another avenue. I think we have to explore. We have to come up with a proposal, I think, initially, and then discuss it with parliamentarians, as to whether they believe that is satisfactory.