Thank you, Mr. Chair, for that question.
Fundamentally I think what I bring to the table is a well-rounded set of experiences. In the human resource world there is a concept referred to as 360-degree feedback. If you look at my history in the province of New Brunswick you will see that I went from a position of being a comptroller in the province of New Brunswick, which is a position that receives recommendations from the auditor general's office and has to implement them, to then being the auditor general for five years and having to be in a position to make recommendations that I felt would be and could be implemented, to now the position of Deputy Minister of Finance, whereby I am in the position of having to try to implement some of the recommendations that I myself made.
So my experience is broad. I spent five years as auditor general of New Brunswick, and as I said in my opening comments, my performance in that role is a matter of public record.
I do not have a lot of experience with the federal government or with federal departments from the inside, but in New Brunswick there are many points of contact with the federal government. The perspective that I bring to the federal government is that of a stakeholder and of having observed many topics and many points of interest between one of the federal government's main stakeholders, that being a province, and the federal government itself.