My colleague Ms. Jones opened the debate on your audit of the Senate. Of course, you verified all the expenses to determine whether they were made properly and were actually authorized.
Do you also have the power to examine the relevance of those expenses? Senators have a salary envelope equivalent to that of MPs. However, senators do not do the same work as MPs and don't have the same obligation of keeping a constituency office.
Are you going to verify the schedule of those employees to determine whether they are really doing the work they are paid for, whether they work 2,000 hours a year, or whether they use the time for partisan political activities? Does your budget allow you to conduct that kind of investigation, or is it too expensive?