In past Parliaments, we actually haven't had to make funding requests as we do right now. If we rewind the clock further—and I'm going to be ballparking here—there was a discussion about an independent funding mechanism in the mid-2000s. There was a blue ribbon panel struck at that time intending to deal with all agents of Parliament and their requests for funding, and also with the application of central agency policies that might impair their independence.
For the Auditor General's office, we haven't needed to come to request funding since I can remember, and I've been with the office for 15 years. From that perspective, I can't say what was different in the previous Parliament or how the previous Parliament would have dealt with it, because we weren't in that space.