Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Functional authority usually means that one of your senior leadership is responsible for an area but doesn't necessarily have direct accountability for it. Pat, for example, would be a functional authority about inventory materiel management, but at the same time some of that work is being done by people in the army who report to a base commander. Defence, in itself, is a bit of a matrixed organization, because we have both a civilian workforce and a military workforce.
I don't disagree with you that perhaps that wording isn't as clear as it could be. I think what we're trying to get across here in terms of governance is, first of all, we have—