Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you so much for being here today and for giving us the opportunity to get to know you a little bit better, and for having given us purpose to study your CV, which in my view is very impressive. I'm a chartered accountant myself, and I really appreciate the comments you have made, and I truly appreciate that your value to the crown will be greater because you have worked on both sides of the equation. That's something we can be grateful for benefiting from.
I want to ask you some questions with an international focus. I'm very proud that we in Canada are so well regarded as a model, not only within the accounting profession, but when it comes to accountability in government. We have an incredibly open system. We allow the Auditor General to freely examine whatever he or she chooses to investigate and then to report publicly on those findings. Certainly we as government have improved things based on Auditor General findings in the past.
How do you see the role of the Auditor General—your role, je l'espère—in setting an example for other countries in the world in regard to that openness, that accountability piece?